Issues in end-of-life product recovery and reverse logistics

A Framework for Reverse Logistics

“…This is happening for a whole range of industries, covering electronic goods, pharmaceuticals, beverages and so on. For instance, the automobile industry is busy changing the physical and virtual supply chain to facilitate end-oflife recovery (Boon et al, 2001;Ferguson and Browne, 2001). Besides this, distant sellers like e-tailers have to handle high return rates and many times at no cost for the customer.…”

Assessing performance and uncertainty in developing carpet reverse logistics systems

“…In US, the main environmental driver for [reducing the level of] non-toxic solid waste is the need to reduce the amount of material going into landfills [4][5][6]. Increasingly, local governments are trying to reduce landfill use and are putting pressure on manufacturers to take steps towards source reduction.…”

RFID in product lifecycle management: a case in the automotive industry

“…Further, component RFID tags, and the performance data held in their memories, provides a new key to assessing the health of a component and to pointing out internal failures that not even the most experienced dismantler may spot from its external appearance. On the recycling side, the provision of performance-based data from RFID tags has allowed for the development of a scale of component regeneration paths, such that more reuse and remanufacturing options (which generate more revenue for the recycler) may be determined, instead of the more traditional low-revenue, reduction of components to recyclable base materials (Ferguson and Browne, 2001). Finally, the provision of EOL component performance data is enabling BOL designers to adopt various environmental design-for-x methodologies, including design for environment, design for dismantling, design for recycling etc.…”