Wonki Collective: giving businesses the power to turn waste into resource

我们的使命是通过创建一个循环和有弹性的粮食系统来更好地利用世界资源。每年有超过16亿吨的食物被浪费，其中40%发生在价值链的起点。这给食品行业造成了6600亿美元的经济损失。仅在英国，这就与超过2500万吨的温室气体排放有关。我们只是不相信这是唯一的办法。我们与英国食品制造商合作，应用我们的智能机器学习技术，让他们更好地了解其副产品“废物”的环境和经济价值。我们的材料匹配技术使他们能够毫不费力地从线性供应链转向循环经济，将食物“垃圾”转化为资源。对于每种副产品成分，我们的新智能机器学习技术确定：-考虑到财务回报和保持最高营养价值，在多个行业中确定最高价值的再利用选项；-潜在买家/接受者，将运输限制在最低限度；-方便的物流支持，使企业出售/赠送/再利用这些废物具有时间和成本效益。通过这种方式，企业可以在继续专注于主营业务的同时变得更加循环。食物副产品可以含有大量的营养价值，从脂肪到蛋白质。然而，没有人从(1)创造循环，(2)尽可能减少原始材料的使用，(3)创造更具弹性的食品系统的角度来分析多个部门的使用。这就是我们的切入点。我们开始专注于3个关键的副产品：淀粉，酿造者的废谷物和果肉。我们已经确定，这些副产品有潜力被升级为有价值的原料，而无需过度消耗能源来处理它们，但在食品工业中作为原料具有多种潜在用途。如果你是这个地区的食品制造商，请随时联系我们，了解我们如何支持你建立一个更循环的食品系统。

We're on a mission to better use the world's resources by creating a circular and resilient food system. More than 1.6 billion tons of food are wasted every year, 40% of which occurs at the beginning of the value chain. This causes economic losses of $660 billion in the food industry. In the UK alone this is associated with more than 25 million tonnes of GHG emissions.We simply don't believe this has to be the only way. We partner with UK food manufacturers and apply our intelligent machine learning technology to allow them to better understand the environmental and economic value of their by-product 'waste'. Our material matchmaking technology then effortlessly enables them to move away from a linear supply chain, towards a circular economy turning food 'waste' into a resource. For each by-product ingredient, our new intelligent machine learning technology identifies:- the highest value reuse options across multiple industries, considering both financial returns and keeping the highest nutritious value,- Potential buyers/takers, with a view at limiting transport to the minimum, and- Convenient logistic support, to make it time and cost effective for businesses to sell/give/reuse this waste.This way, businesses can become more circular while continuing to focus on their main business.Food by-products can contain high amounts of nutritious value, from fats to proteins. However no one is analysing the use across multiple sectors with the view on (1) creating circularity, (2) reducing the use of virgin materials where possible, (3) creating a more resilient food system. That's where we come in.We're starting off focusing on 3 key by-products: starch, brewers spent grain and fruit pulp. We've identified these by-products as having potential to be upcycled into valuable ingredients without over intensive energy usage to process them but with multiple potential uses across the food industry as ingredients. If you're a food manufacturer in this area please do feel free to reach out to us to understand more about how we can support you to building a more circular food system.