The introduction of extended producer responsibility forces Original Equipment Manufacturers to set up a logistic network for take back, processing and recovery of discarded products. In this paper, we discuss a business case study carried out at Oce, a copier firm in Venlo (NL). It concerns the...

Multinational companies have recently been encouraged by government policies to implement Extended Producer Responsibility, defined as 'a policy approach in which producers accept significant responsibility, financial and/or physical, for the treatment or disposal of products'. One objective is...

This paper estimates the magnitude of worldwide Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) flows and assesses the impact of policies such as extended producer responsibility on future global WEEE flows. Local disposal is still common practice in the USA, while increasing quantities are...

This paper contains the dataset for the refrigerator case concerning the design of a production and return network for refrigerators. Section 1 emphasises the major changes to the problem structure and assumptions used by Umeda et al. (1999). Section 2 contains the parameter settings. Section 3...