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The current work is focused on seven countries of the Baltic region, such as Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. Despite a number of differences in population size, land area, density (Table 6.1) and GDP per capita (Fig. 6.1), in the area of waste management the countries have a number of similarities, for example, the same waste legislation, except Belarus, and similar historical background, excepting Germany and Sweden, countries which, in way or another, have influenced and shaped society’s attitude towards the food and waste issues as well as consumer behaviour. All these make a comparative analysis of the following countries regarding the problem of the food waste management and its possible future trends interesting and useful.
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Leal Filho, W., Kovaleva, M. (2015). Overview of the Baltic Region Countries. In: Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10906-0_6
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