On the design of closed-loop networks for product life cycle management: Economic, environmental and geography considerations

Riccardo Accorsi, Riccardo Manzini, Chiara Pini and Stefano Penazzi

Journal of Transport Geography, 2015, vol. 48, issue C, 121-134

Abstract: The management of the product life cycle needs industrial synergies along large-scale networks to collect, recycle, reuse, and recover the end-of-life products. This paper provides a tool to assess the enabling economic, environmental, and transport geography conditions to design sustainable closed-loop networks for the management of a generic product along its life-cycle. The proposed tool is built through a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model for the strategic design of a multi-echelon closed-loop network. The product life cycle is handled via a cascade through seven stages, including raw material suppliers, manufacturing plants, distribution centers, retailers, collection nodes for waste and by-products, recycling centers, and landfills.

Keywords: Closed-loop supply chain; Network design; Intermodality; Waste; Sustainability; Product life cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.09.005

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