Cabinet Health from Shark Tank: All You Need to Know

(ABC/Christopher Willard) RUSSELL GONG, ACHAL PATEL

Cabinet Health touts itself as the sustainable healthcare company. How you may ask? You’ll have to read below to find out. The co-founders joined forces and found themselves on the Shark Tank stage to pitch to the sharks. Find out more about Cabinet Health now.

1. They have a mission to unplastic the cabinet. They are on a mission to stop the tremendous waste going on in this industry for people who take medicine from a pharmacy, to reduce the amount of plastic bottles which need to be put in the trash every month. That number is 194 billion bottles made on a yearly basis. They were even interviewed by Forbes magazine in regards to the waste pertaining to plastic.

2. The company started in January of 2018 and since starting, they have diverted 2000 pounds of plastic through their efforts with a goal to reach 3K in 2023. It is important to build an ethical and transparent supply chain.

3. According to their website, Cabinet Health is “a certified B-Corp company improving the environmental impact of healthcare and quality of medicine. Our first mission is to eliminate single-use plastic in medicine.” They not only provide glass containers for medicine, but also provide the pills themselves. They are covered in a number of areas including allergy relief, pain relief, cold and flu, sleep and stress, and digestive health.

4. The company was founded by friends, Achal Patel and Russ Gong. According to their website, “Two close friends, Achal Patel and Russ Gong, combined their experiences in medicine and sustainable product development and founded the company. They formed a team of mission driven experts to harness the pharmaceutical industry as a force to combat plastic waste and broader climate change.”

5. Since microplastics and overall plastic waste has become such a large problem, Cabinet Health tries to do its best to combat the problem by putting out this Instagram post.

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