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

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Walter Leal Filho Marina Kovaleva

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

Environmental Science and Engineering Environmental Science

Series editors Rod Allan, Burlington, Canada Ulrich Förstner, Hamburg, Germany Wim Salomons, Haren, The Netherlands

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

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Walter Leal Filho Marina Kovaleva Life Sciences Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Hamburg Germany

ISSN 1431-6250 ISBN 978-3-319-10905-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10906-0

ISBN 978-3-319-10906-0

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Preface

Today, the amount of food thrown away worldwide, reaches around 1.3 billion tonnes per year. This book presents the findings of an extensive piece of research on the state of the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results show that the scale of the problem with regard to food waste varies between each country and is limited by