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

Olga Lingaitienė,Aurelija Burinskienė,Vida Davidavičienė

doi:10.3390/su14031809

Olga Lingaitienė, Aurelija Burinskienė + Show 1 more

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https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031809

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Feb 5, 2022
Citations: 2	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

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.

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Burinskienė, A.; Davidavičienė, V.Package design is paramount to grabbing buyers’ attention
This article reveals that municipal waste is strongly and directly related to reverse logistics processes
The authors constructed the hierarchy of qualitative methods and models for researching reverse logistics and waste collection aspects and figure out that most often authors apply mixed-integer linear programming method

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Burinskienė, A.; Davidavičienė, V.Package design is paramount to grabbing buyers’ attention. Like branding, is critical to product positioning in the industry and can either drive sales or block sales entirely [2]. Most companies emphasise getting the product out the door and overlook the need for returns and business management acts as if not expecting the potential return of the shipped product. This gap is often attributed to a deficiency of system automation required to manage the returned product. They focus more on immediate reverse logistics customer issues but concentrate less on returns [4]

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