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

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Authors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Marina Kovaleva

    1. Life Sciences, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  • A unique overview on amounts of food waste generation in the Baltic Sea Region countries
  • Country statistics on food waste generation, available for the first time and resulting from 6 months research
  • A chapter on applied methods of food waste treatment in the Baltic Sea Region countries
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)

Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
    Pages 1-8

  3. Literature Review

    • Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
    Pages 9-29

  4. Causes of Food Waste Generation

    • Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
    Pages 31-50

  5. Methods of Food Waste Reduction

    • Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
    Pages 51-80

  6. Research Methods

    • Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
    Pages 81-82

  7. Overview of the Baltic Region Countries

    • Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
    Pages 83-106

  8. The State of the Problem of Food Waste in the Baltic Region Countries

    • Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
    Pages 107-176

  9. Discussion

    • Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
    Pages 177-192

  10. Conclusions and Recommendations

    • Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
    Pages 193-204

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 205-222
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  • Life Sciences, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Marina Kovaleva

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