Turning Waste into By-Product

نویسنده

  • Deishin Lee
چکیده

This paper studies how the conversion of a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product affects a firm’s optimal operating strategy. We determine whether local implementation can be optimal, i.e., continuing business-as-usual to produce the original product and merely converting the collaterally generated waste stream into by-product, or whether global implementation – that re-optimizes the now joint production process – is required to maximize profit. Whereas local BPS implementation can be managed as if it were an alternate method of waste disposal, global implementation requires managerial attention at a strategic level. To determine which implementation mode is profit-maximizing, we derive optimality conditions for three possible operating regimes. These optimality conditions depend crucially on the waste disposal cost, which acts as a subsidy for the by-product that “consumes” the waste, and also on the virgin raw material cost, which acts as a subsidy for the original product that “feeds” the by-product process. These two costs create a symbiotic relationship between the original product and by-product. Since BPS turns waste into useful raw material, the firm may increase profit by generating more “waste”. Although BPS is generally lauded as a win-win for business and the environment, the firm may actually increase emissions if it acts to maximize profit because it increases production to leverage the competitive advantage it gains from its operational synergy.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

دوره 14  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012