In 1985, the scrap tire industry was created when Minnesota became the first state to develop specific legislation and regulations for scrap tires. Up to that time, many scrap tires, like most solid and household wastes, went into the l1)unicipal dump. Those tires not placed in the dump went into stock piles, some of which still exist today. Prior to 1985, few, ifany scrap tires were processed....

Hexavalent chromium is highly toxic to most living organisms and a known human carcinogen by the inhalation route of exposure. Therefore, treatment of Cr(VI) contaminated wastewater is essential before their discharge to the natural water bodies. Cr(VI) reduction to Cr(III) can be beneficial because a more mobile and more toxic chromium species is converted to a less mobile and less toxic form....

In this paper, we first look at the issue of non-shortages in models with proportional imperfect quality, when the proportion of the imperfects is a random variable. More specifically we revisit the papers of Salameh and Jaber (Int. J. Prod. Econom. 64 (2000) 59) and Chan et al. (Prod. Plann. Control 14 (2003) 588) and we point out that the sufficient conditions given in these papers to ensure ...

In this paper, a fuzzy based inventory model for imperfect quality items has been developed with shortages. The parameters fixed cost; holding cost and shortage cost are considered as fuzzy numbers. We considered the triangular fuzzy number to represents fuzzy parameters. The optimum order quantity is obtained in fuzzy sense with the help of signed distance method. The proposed model is illustr...