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The current study centres on today’s situation and future trends in food waste management in seven Baltic Region countries such as Belarus, Estonia, Germania, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The findings are based on an analysis of the information and statistical data on the problem of food waste, available from various sources. It also includes such aspects as the causes of food waste, methods of its treatment, best practice, countries’ economic situations, with a focus on consumer purchasing power, a food consumption pattern, undernourishment and poverty level, as well as renewable energy production and a state of biodegradable waste management. The obtained results give ground to a number of conclusions.
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Leal Filho, W., Kovaleva, M. (2015). Conclusions and Recommendations. 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_9
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