The focus of this paper is how an electronics manufacturer may be able to exercise greater control or influence over its consumers' product usage behaviors with the aim of slowing the rate of waste generated. The approach requires manufacturers to extend product life-cycles via better...

A new inventory model that considers both cost and emission functions is proposed for environments where temperature-controlled items need to be stored at a certain, non-ambient temperature and to do so modular temperature-control units are used. Transportation unit capacity and storage unit...