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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Main Authors: Leal Filho, Walter. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kovaleva, Marina. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Environmental Science,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10906-0
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Literature Review -- Causes of food waste generation -- Methods of food waste reduction -- Research Methods -- Overview of the Baltic Region countries -- The state-of-the-art of the problem of food waste in the Baltic Region countries -- Discussion -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Glossary -- References. 
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