Supply Loops and Their Constraints: The Industrial Ecology of Recycling and Reuse Case Solution
A growing variety of companies in Europe, Asia, and North America engage in voluntary or mandatory end-of-life product management. Since developments in product take-back are driven by a mix of economic chances and environmental concerns, the most bright corporate end-of-life strategies create both environmental and economic worth.
This note introduces a framework that can help supervisors evaluate and identify such supply loop strategies. Use of the framework to two particular supply loops shows the utility of the framework: recycling and reuse of structural steel sections in the U.K. building sector. Emphasizes the value of supply chain restraints as well as reveals how lack of data may be a significant challenge to the assessment of possible win-win supply iterations.
This is just an excerpt. This case is about TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS
PUBLICATION DATE: February 01, 2004
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