Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region

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 knowledg...

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Những tác giả chính: Leal Filho, Walter, Kovaleva, Marina
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-577142023-11-11T05:51:30Z Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region Leal Filho, Walter Kovaleva, Marina Plate waste General Industries Economics Business Baltic States Plate waste 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. 2015-08-21T07:10:55Z 2015-08-21T07:10:55Z 2015 Book 978-3-319-10906-0 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/57714 en application/pdf Springer
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topic Plate waste
General
Industries
Economics
Business
Baltic States
Plate waste
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General
Industries
Economics
Business
Baltic States
Plate waste
Leal Filho, Walter
Kovaleva, Marina
Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region
description 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.
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Kovaleva, Marina
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Kovaleva, Marina
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title Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region
title_short Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region
title_full Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region
title_fullStr Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region
title_full_unstemmed Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region
title_sort food waste and sustainable food waste management in the baltic sea region
publisher Springer
publishDate 2015
url https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/57714
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