01670cam a22002055i 4500008004100000020001800041245006500059260002900124520105400153650002801207650002901235650002201264650004301286650002901329650003901358700001901397700001401416700001801430700001601448140912s2015    gw |||| o    |||| 0|eng    a978981158966910aSustainable Food Waste Management: concepts and innovations/  aSingaporebSpingerc2029  aThis 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. 0aEnvironmental sciences. 0aSustainable development. 0aWaste management.14aEnvironmental Science and Engineering.24aSustainable Development.24aWaste Management/Waste Technology.1 aThakur, Monika1 aModi, V.K1 aKhedkar, Reun1 aSing Karuna