Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)

This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results show that the problem of food waste can be found at different levels in each country and that our knowledge of it is limited by the current lack of studies in the area. The problem is primarily due to food waste generated by the manufacturing sector, mostly in the form of unused or inefficiently used by-products, as well as on a share of food thrown away by households that is still suitable for human consumption. The main reduction/prevention method, applied across the countries, is food donation; the remaining methods are the same ones used for biodegradable waste in the respective countries. The findings gathered in this study show a number of potential measures/methods for sustainable food waste management, which may be considered in future works in order to reduce the amounts of food waste generated in each of the aforementioned countries.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Environmental Science and Engineering
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2015
Authors:	Walter Leal Filho • Marina Kovaleva
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	222
Edition:	2015 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-10905-3
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Waste management > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Sanitary & municipal engineering > Waste treatment & disposal > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-10905-7
Barcode:	9783319109053

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