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This study presents a cost optimisation model for multi-variety (or multi-type) Recycled Waste Reverse Logistics System (RWRLS). A linear analytical model is formulated which minimises the total reverse logistics costs for multi-variety Recycled Waste Reverse Logistics System (RWRLS) subjected...
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Recycling and remanufacturing activities are gaining in importance, as a growing population and economy use up and wear … 100 to 250 million such items each year. As discard volumes rise and as resource scarcity becomes more critical, recycling … these activities for economic development and sustainability, new methods of tracking their impacts must be developed. While …
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This paper analyses the social impact of liberalisation of plastic bottles in Malta, wherein the system of returnable glass bottles has effectively been replaced by a system of disposable plastic bottles. The paper applies concepts such as Ulrich Beck's (1992) 'risk society', and Michael...
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Recycling and remanufacturing activities are gaining in importance, as a growing population and economy use up and wear … 100 to 250 million such items each year. As discard volumes rise and as resource scarcity becomes more critical, recycling … these activities for economic development and sustainability, new methods of tracking their impacts must be developed. While …
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The international waste management community is well aware of the necessity, with all its reasons, to divert urban waste from landfills. It so happens that the rest of the population does not share or have access to our knowledge, and consequently exhibits patterns of behaviour with respect to...
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This article has a brief introduction about reverse logistics usage in wastemanagement. Then Authors proposed own elaborated descriptive model of reverse logisticsprocesses in enterprises managing industrial waste. There was a research made in Poland inSilesia region on six different enterprises...
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Economic growth in developing countries accelerated waste generation, and Thailand also is experiencing issues related to increased waste generation and improper waste management. The country’s domestic waste utilization is only 20%–26%. Efficient waste management and increased quantity of...
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The Productivity Commission’s inquiry report into ‘Waste Management’ was tabled by Government in December 2006. The Australian Government asked the Commission to identify policies that would enable Australia to address market failures and externalities associated with the generation and...
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