Destigmatising waste - turning surplus into value

两只浣熊一直在用水果酿酒，否则这些水果就会被浪费。自2021年以来，我们已经从浪费中回收了数吨水果，并酿造了香蕉、芒果、黑醋栗、覆盆子等7种口味的果酒。自从我们与Baxters第一次合作以来，我们已经极大地扩大了我们的水果供应商网络，并在英国和欧洲发现了过剩水果的热点，某些地区每周有超过50吨水果被浪费。随着Next Steps奖项的颁发，我们将进行研发，以创造利口酒和其他产品，以挽救更多的过剩成分。香蕉是英国和全世界浪费最多的水果，在未来扩展到其他类型的剩余配料之前，我们将在下一步奖中研究如何重新利用这种水果并将其作价。两只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物，创造新的产品，如植物化肥，同时通过价态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.