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Sustainable Waste Management System and Reverse Logistic Network Design in Plastic Industry: A Case Study of Turkey

Sustainable Waste Management System and Reverse Logistic Network Design in Plastic Industry: A Case Study of Turkey

Emel Kizilkaya Aydogan, Nuray Ates, Nigmet Uzal, Fulya Zaral, Petraq Papajorgji
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466648524|ISBN10: 146664852X|EISBN13: 9781466648531
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4852-4.ch048
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Aydogan, Emel Kizilkaya, et al. "Sustainable Waste Management System and Reverse Logistic Network Design in Plastic Industry: A Case Study of Turkey." Sustainable Practices: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 867-884. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4852-4.ch048

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Aydogan, E. K., Ates, N., Uzal, N., Zaral, F., & Papajorgji, P. (2014). Sustainable Waste Management System and Reverse Logistic Network Design in Plastic Industry: A Case Study of Turkey. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Sustainable Practices: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 867-884). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4852-4.ch048

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Aydogan, Emel Kizilkaya, et al. "Sustainable Waste Management System and Reverse Logistic Network Design in Plastic Industry: A Case Study of Turkey." In Sustainable Practices: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 867-884. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4852-4.ch048

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Abstract

The shortage of natural sources and the threat of the bad trend have forced the industries to find environmentally-friendly alternatives and ecological approaches in their production line. In some countries, regulations have been issued for industries about this subject. Due to these reasons and more of them, logistic firms have been forced to take into consideration decreasing material and energy consumption and minimizing waste production in planning their network designs. In practice, it might be necessary to simultaneously optimize more than one conflicting objective to obtain effective and realistic solutions. In this chapter, current logistics network design of a plastic industry in Turkey has been investigated and reverse logistics network design has been developed to minimize waste production and to achieve green production. This chapter presents a mathematical model which is a fuzzy goal programming model for imprecise goals for reverse logistic network design with multiple objectives in plastic sector. The considered objectives are to reduce cost in reverse logistics, to improve product quality, and to provide environmental benefits by minimizing waste production.

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