Barriers of Reverse Logistics Implementation: A Case Study in a Car Battery Industry in Indonesia

There is a kindly new concept in logistics that related to the reusing, remanufacturing, and refurbishing of products, announced as reverse logistic (RL). While conventional or forward logistics is defined as the process of moving goods from the point of origin to the point of consumption, RL is defined contrarily. It allows the return of the products to be recycled, reworked, reused, or crushed for disposal. It has been growing out worldwide, affecting all the levels of supply chains in various industry sectors since the best RL operations would lead to higher sales revenue and reduced costs. However, regardless of its benefits, there are some barriers of the RL implementation, especially in the developing countries. The objective of this research is to identify the barriers of RL implementation in a car battery industry in Indonesia and study the interaction among those barriers to find the the root barrier using interpretative structural modelling. These barriers are then further analyzed using MICMAC analysis to look for the priority of the strategy to manage the barriers. The finding could help the managers to generate some policies toward the RL implementation

Strategic research and innovation agenda on circular economy

CICERONE aims to bring national, regional and local governments together to jointly tackle the circular economy transition needed to reach net-zero carbon emissions and meet the targets set in the Paris Agreement and EU Green Deal. This document represents one of the key outcomes of the project: a Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for Europe, to support owners and funders of circular economy programmes in aligning priorities and approaching the circular economy transition in a systemic way

GEO-6 assessment for the pan-European region

Through this assessment, the authors and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) secretariat are providing an objective evaluation and analysis of the pan-European environment designed to support environmental decision-making at multiple scales. In this assessment, the judgement of experts is applied to existing knowledge to provide scientifically credible answers to policy-relevant questions. These questions include, but are not limited to the following:• What is happening to the environment in the pan-European region and why?• What are the consequences for the environment and the human population in the pan-European region?• What is being done and how effective is it?• What are the prospects for the environment in the future?• What actions could be taken to achieve a more sustainable future?<br/

Critical barriers in implementing reverse logistics in the Chinese manufacturing sectors

Reverse logistics (RL) is gaining momentum worldwide due to global awareness and as a consequence of resource depletion and environmental degradation. Firms encounter RL implementation challenges from different stakeholders, both internally and externally. On the one hand, various governmental agencies are coming out with different environmental regulations while on the other hand academics and researchers are contributing solutions and suggestions in different country contexts. In a real sense however, the benefits of RL implementation is not yet fully realized in the emerging economies. This paper proposes a theoretical RL implementation model and empirically identifies significant RL barriers with respect to management, financial, policy and infrastructure in the Chinese manufacturing industries such as automotive, electrical and electronic, plastics, steel/construction, textiles and paper and paper based products. Key barriers from our study, with respect to these four categories, are: within management category a lack of reverse logistics experts and low commitment, within financial category a lack of initial capital and funds for return monitoring systems, within policy category a lack of enforceable laws and government supportive economic policies and, finally, within infrastructure category a the lack of systems for return monitoring. Contingency effect of ownership was carried out to understand the similarities and differences in RL barriers among the multinational firms and domestic firms investigated

Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document for Waste treatment Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control)

The Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document for Waste Treatment is the result of the information exchange since the kick-off meeting which was held from 25 to 28 November 2013. The information collection took place in 2014 and 2015 and the final meeting took place in March 2017. The document includes information on the following waste treatment processes: - Mechanical treatment in shredders of metal waste - Mechanical treatment of VFCs and VHCs containing equipment - Mechanical treatment of waste with calorific value - Aerobic treatment of waste - Anaerobic treatment of waste - Mechanical-Biological treatment of waste (MBT) - Physico-chemical treatment of solid and pasty waste - Re-refining of waste oil - Physico-chemical treatment of waste with calorific value - Regeneration of spent solvents - Physico-chemical and/or biological treatment of water-based liquid waste - Regeneration / recovery of pollution abatement components / Flue-Gas Treatment (FGT) of waste - Recovery of components from spent catalysts - Treatment of excavated contaminated soil - Treatment of POPs-containing waste - Treatment of mercury-containing wasteJRC.B.5-Circular Economy and Industrial Leadershi

WoodCircus, Underpinning the vital role of the forest-based sector in the Circular Bioeconomy. D2.2 Resource Efficiency, Side Streams and Value Chain Analysis – WP2 Final Report

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