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Sustainable Waste Management System and Reverse Logistic Network Design in Plastic Industry: A Case Study of Turkey
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Author(s): Emel Kizilkaya Aydogan (Erciyes University, Turkey), Nuray Ates (Erciyes University, Turkey), Nigmet Uzal (Nigde University, Turkey), Fulya Zaral (Erciyes University, Turkey)and Petraq Papajorgji (European University of Tirana, Albania)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 18
Source title:
Enterprise Business Modeling, Optimization Techniques, and Flexible Information Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Petraq Papajorgji (Universiteti Europian i Tiranes, Albania), Alaine Margarete Guimarães (State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil)and Mario R. Guarracino (Italian National Research Council, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3946-1.ch012
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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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