Plastic waste is a big issue in Thailand, but the amount of recycled plastic in Thailand is still low due to the high investment and operating cost. Hence, the rest of plastic waste are burnt to destroy or sent to the landfills. In order to be financial viable, an effective reverse logistics infrastructure is required to support the product recovery activities. However, there is a conflict betw...

This paper aims at providing a review of Reverse Logistics concept from a broad set of articles, published mainly in the last decade. From their reading, the author has detected the lack of a desirable largely accepted consensus on what constitutes Reverse Logistics, either on what the range of activities should be included within its scope or how to denominate each of its options in a not fuzz...

Purpose: This paper aims to identify the barriers for implementing Reverse Logistics in construction sector and rank between barrier stakeholder, phase project life cycle, relevant issues on emergence of reverse logisticsDesign/methodology/approach: research began by identifying re- verse logistics through a systematic literature review. The method used review was PRISMA method. identification ...

Due to green legislations, industries track the used products through reverse logistics contractors. A reverse logistics programme offers significant cost savings in procurement, transportation, disposal and inventory carrying. Since reverse logistics operations and the supply chains they support are considerably more complex than traditional manufacturing supply chains, it can be offered to th...

and submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Mechanical Engineering) complies with the regulations of the University and meets the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. Many manufacturers are moving towards green manufacturing. One of the actions for environment friendly manufacturing is collection of end-of-life products...

Through the analysis of Travelling Salesman Problem with Pickup and Delivery (TSPD) in the related research, two kinds of logistics systems including whole logistics system and partial logistics system under one-to-many logistic network are considered. And mathematical model is set up, then, nested cost optimization model is set up in order to meet the constraint condition of nested order cycle...

As reverse logistics is a relatively new field in supply chain management, especially in Asia, a detailed study is conducted to understand the status of companies practicing reverse logistics to support their Asia Pacific operations. This paper discusses an empirical examination of a company performing reverse logistics in Asia with Singapore being the coordination hub with the United States (U...

background and purpose: gastric cancer (gc) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and in iran. as conventional therapies such as surgery and chemotherapy are invasive with adverse effects, current studies are important as they are conducted to find natural compounds with few adverse effects. in this study, melittin with 26 amino acids was isolated and purified from bee venom and its effec...