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PeelPioneers

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PeelPioneers is a scale-up that wants to make a difference. Half the weight of an orange is its peel. Every time you drink a liter of juice, a kilo of peels remains somewhere. Waste, you will think, and most companies think so too. Every year in the Netherlands, we throw away more than 250 million kilos of citrus peels. That's more than 10,000 trucks full! A shame, because the peels can also be used as raw materials. And this is already happening! In countries where citrus fruits grow (e.g., in Brazil and Florida), the peels are used to extract valuable raw materials. Nowhere in the world does this happen with peels that are thrown away every day at supermarkets and restaurants. PeelPioneers is changing this. PeelPioneers processes citrus peels and thus extracts raw materials that can be used in various industries. In this way, we switch from waste to raw material, and PeelPioneers contributes to the circular economy. PeelPioneers has the ambition to return 100% of the peel to the food chain.