Case Study of Municipal Waste and Its Reliance on Reverse Logistics in European Countries

Olga Lingaitienė, Aurelija Burinskienė and Vida Davidavičienė
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Olga Lingaitienė: Faculty of Business Management, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Aurelija Burinskienė: Faculty of Business Management, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Vida Davidavičienė: Faculty of Business Management, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-24

Abstract: The authors have examined municipal waste, its components and their integration with reverse logistics processes. Background: The theoretical part begins with a definition of municipal waste. Later, the integration between municipal waste and reverse logistics is provided, including presentation of the hierarchy of qualitative methods and models. Methods: The authors constructed a correlation matrix and applied a dynamic regression model to identify that the level of municipal waste impacts recycling of biowaste which demands reverse logistics. Results: The authors provided a dynamic regression model which could be applied for forecasting the size of recycled municipal waste into biowaste indicated in European Union countries. Conclusions: The variety of components in municipal waste prevents the increase of the recycling rates and has to be changed to ones that have higher recycling rates.

Keywords: municipal waste; packaging; recycling; logistics processes; reverse logistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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