The extent of food waste generation across EU-27: Different calculation methods and the reliability of their results

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 683-694

  Bräutigam, Klaus Rainer ^a   Jörissen, Juliane ^a   Priefer, Carmen ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

data availability; data reliability; EU 27; food chain; Food waste; model calculations

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FOOD SUPPLY; RELIABILITY; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DATA AVAILABILITY; DATA RELIABILITY; EU-27; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WASTE; MODEL CALCULATIONS;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CATERING SERVICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD WASTE; POSTHARVEST PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD SUPPLY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84906733413     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X14545374     Document Type: Article

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