01736cam a22002295i 4500 38255 38255 140912s2015 gw |||| o |||| 0|eng 9789811589669 Sustainable Food Waste Management: concepts and innovations/ Singapore Spinger 2029 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. Environmental sciences. 5548 Sustainable development. 2883 Waste management. Environmental Science and Engineering. Sustainable Development. 2883 Waste Management/Waste Technology. Thakur, Monika Modi, V.K Khedkar, Reun Sing Karuna BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 MAIN MAIN OOER 2024-05-02 GFT 0 TQ 628. S88 2020 00048581 2024-05-02 00:00:00 1 2024-05-02 BK