Destigmatising waste - turning surplus into value

两只浣熊一直在用本来会被浪费掉的水果酿酒。自2021年起，我们拯救了数吨被浪费的水果，并酿造了7种口味的果酒，包括香蕉、芒果、黑加仑和乌藨子。自从我们第一次与水果商合作以来，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过剩水果的热点，在某些地方，每周有超过50吨的水果被浪费。有了下一步奖，我们将进行研发，创造利口酒和其他产品，以拯救更多的过剩成分。由于香蕉是英国乃至全世界被浪费最多的水果，我们将在“下一步”奖评选期间研究如何重新利用和提升这种水果的价值，然后在未来扩展到其他类型的剩余成分。Two Raccoons的目标是成为世界上第一家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，创造新产品，如植物肥料，同时通过价值评估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可以弥合。

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.