1 End - of - life Product Recovery : Drivers ,

Drivers for recycling of end-of-life electronics

1 Manufacturer strategies for end - of - life product recovery

This paper describes seven alternative product recovery strategies that can be pursued by manufacturers. I then develop empirically testable hypotheses based on industrial organization, transaction cost economics, and the resource-based view to predict which strategies are likely to be pursued by different types of companies.

Evaluating End-of-Life Recovery Profit by a Simultaneous Consideration of Product Design and Recovery Network Design

Product recovery has become a field of rapidly growing interest for product manufacturers as a promising solution for product stewardship as well as for economic viability. Because product recovery is highly dependent on the way a product is designed, it should be considered in the design stage so that the product is designed to have high recovery potential. To make a product easy to recover, m...

Organisation of reverse logistics tasks in the construction industry

The construction industry is characterized by a high material intensity and hence by a large amount and a heterogeneous mix of construction and demolition waste (C&D waste). The high and diversified amount of C&D waste is not only a today’s challenge with respect to recovery of components and materials but also with respect to the organisation of the associated logistic activities. The purpose ...

Integration of Product Life Cycle Data toward Remanufacturing of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

This study aims to incorporate the information collected from the product’s usage phase into making appropriate end-of-use and end-of-life (EOU/L) recovery decisions (e.g., reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, refurbishing, disposal) for consumer electronics. The analyses are focused on discovering a mutual link between the actual product usage behavior of consumers and the future reusability of ...