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

Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 222 Seiten

2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-38455-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Science
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Science and Engineering
Zusatzinfo	XII, 222 p. 95 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Schlagworte	Biodegradable Waste • Earth and Environmental Science • earth sciences • Environmental Science and Engineering • Environmental science, engineering and technology • Food waste • Methods of Food Waste Reduction • sustainability • sustainable development • Sustainable Food Waste Management Chain • waste management • Waste Management/Waste Technology • Waste treatment and disposal
ISBN-10	3-319-38455-4 / 3319384554
ISBN-13	978-3-319-38455-9 / 9783319384559
Zustand	Neuware