How to Effectively Improve Pesticide Waste Governance: A Perspective of Reverse Logistics

Abstract

With the development of modern science and technology, agricultural production and quality have made major breakthroughs, followed by more and more pesticide waste. Pesticide waste refers to the packaging of pesticide residues. Pesticide waste will cause great damage to soil, water and human health, seriously affecting the ecological sustainability. Most of the existing literature is theoretical articles, and few empirical studies are provided on how to improve pesticide waste management. In this paper, a set of reverse logistics network models of pesticide wastes is constructed, and the framework of reverse logistics is used to realize the efficient recovery and treatment of pesticide wastes. The problem of how to collect pesticide wastes and how to optimize the location and flow allocation of facilities such as recycling center and treatment center was solved. The weights of the factors affecting the reverse logistics network model are determined by using the network analytic hierarchy process. Under the conditions of minimizing the cost and minimizing the negative externality, the mixed integer model programming method is used to make the optimal location decision and flow distribution. Finally, taking the JT area of China as an example, the results of the reverse logistics network model of pesticide wastes are demonstrated. The results show that the scheme is feasible.

Estimating the effects of joining cooperatives on farmers’ recycling behaviors of pesticide packaging waste: insights from apple farmers of China

“…It is generally believed that pesticide packaging waste (PPW) hazardously pollutes the soil and groundwater, resulting in a decline in agricultural production and quality (BONDORI et al, 2019;JIN, 2016;LI, 2020a;ZHANG, 2019). The PPW mainly refers to the packaging materials and their direct contact with the pesticides discarded material after use in agricultural products such as bottles, cans, barrels, and bags made of plastic, glass, metal, paper, and other materials (LI & HUANG, 2018). In the case of China, it is reported that around 500,000 tons of pesticides are consumed every year.…”

“…Pesticide packages reach up to 10 billion (FENG et al, 2020), which not only influences the ecosystem but also poses serious threats to food security and public health (GAO et al, 2019;LUO et al, 2015;MUBANGA & BWALYA UMAR, 2020;SHANG, 2021). In the case of farmers, they are regarded as both the producers and victims of pesticide packaging waste.They are implementers and beneficiaries of the RPPW (HUANG, 2021;LI & HUANG, 2018). Previous studies reported that farmers in developing countries heavily rely on discarding, burying, and incinerating pesticide packaging waste and their recycling proportion of pesticide packaging waste is relatively low (LI et al, 2018).…”

Policy Intervention Effect Research on Pesticide Packaging Waste Recycling: Evidence From Jiangsu, China

“…Nonetheless, farmers tend to overuse pesticides to better control microbial diseases and pests (Bagheri et al, 2018), which is accompanied by the improper treatment of a large number of pesticide packaging waste. Pesticide packaging materials are generally made of polyester bottles and aluminum foil bags, with low economic value of reuse (Jones, 2014;Li and Huang, 2018). However, due to the difficulty of breaking down pesticide packaging waste, it is continuously accumulated in the farmland ecological environment for a long time, forming white pollution and affecting crop growth and agricultural machinery operation (Pasdar et al, 2017;Pirsaheb et al, 2017).…”

Willingness and Behaviors of Farmers’ Green Disposal of Pesticide Packaging Waste in Henan, China: A Perceived Value Formation Mechanism Perspective

“…Nonetheless, farmers tend to overuse pesticides to better control the crop diseases and pests [4,5], which were accompanied by the improper disposal of amounts of pesticide packaging waste (PPWs) resulting in environmental pollution that had become one of the outstanding problems of agricultural non-point source pollution in China [6,7]. PPWs mainly refer to the packaging materials directly in contact with pesticides discarded after use in the agriculture production, including bottles, cans, barrels and bags made of plastic, glass, metal, paper and other materials [8]. In order to control the pollution caused by PPWs, the State Council of China promulgated the newly revised Regulations on Pesticide Management (RPM) in 2017 to clarify the responsibility subjects and important obligations of recycling PPWs for the first time.…”

“…In addition, Huang et al [28] sorted out the mature recycling models of PPWs, and believed that the government-led superfund system for pollution control in the United States and the market-oriented green point waste recycling management system in Germany were representative for now. Nevertheless, Li and Huang [8] explored the recycling and utilization mechanism of PPWs from the perspective of reverse logistics, as well as the positive impacts of the reverse logistics mechanisms on the ecological and social benefits. Geographic information system (GIS) technology was used by the researcher to assess the generation of solid waste [29].…”