Destigmatising waste - turning surplus into value

两只浣熊一直在用原本会被浪费掉的水果酿酒。自2021年以来，我们已经从浪费的水果中拯救了数吨，并制作了7种口味的果酒，包括香蕉、芒果、黑加仑和覆盆子。自从我们第一次与百克斯特合作以来，我们已经大大扩展了我们的水果供应商网络，并在英国和欧洲发现了水果过剩的热点，在某些地方，每周有超过50吨的水果被浪费。有了“下一步”奖金，我们将进行研究和开发，以创造利口酒和其他产品，以挽救更多的剩余原料。由于香蕉是英国乃至全世界浪费最多的水果，我们将在“下一步”奖期间研究这种水果的再利用和价值增值方式，然后在未来扩展到其他类型的剩余成分。两浣熊的目标是成为世界上第一个完全循环的食品和饮料生产商。我们的目标是重新利用我们自己的废料来创造新的产品，如植物肥料，同时通过增值提取有价值的化合物。我们希望表明，可持续性和财务可行性是可以弥合的。

Two Raccoons have been making wine from fruits that would have otherwise gone to waste. Since 2021, we have rescued tonnes of fruits from being wasted, and made 7 flavours of fruit wines, including banana, mango, blackcurrant and raspberry. Since our first partnership with Baxters, we have greatly expanded our fruit supplier network and have found hotspots of surplus fruits across the UK and Europe, with upwards of 50 tonnes of fruits being wasted every week in certain locations.With the Next Steps award, we will conduct research and development to create liqueurs and other products in order to rescue greater amounts of surplus ingredients. With bananas being the most wasted fruit in the UK and worldwide, we will be investigating ways of repurposing and valorising this fruit throughout the Next Steps award, before expanding to other types of surplus ingredients in the future.Two Raccoons aim to become the first fully circular food and drinks producer in the world. We aim to repurpose our own waste materials to create new products like plant fertilisers while extracting valuable compounds through valorisation. We want to show that sustainability and financial viability can be bridged.