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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, there is a kilo of peel left over somewhere. Waste, you might think, and most companies think so too. Every year we throw away more than 250 million kilos of citrus peels in the Netherlands. That's more than 10,000 trucks full! A shame, because the peels can also be used as a raw material. And this is already happening! In countries where citrus fruits grow (including Brazil & 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 transition from waste to raw materials and PeelPioneers contributes to the circular economy. PeelPioneers has the ambition to return 100% of the peel to the food chain and does this with the help of partners. In 2023, our efforts were rewarded with the Circular Award Business Small and in 2024 we ended up at number 30 in the FoodTech500 world rankings!