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Reverse Logistics in the Electronics Waste Industry

Reverse Logistics in the Electronics Waste Industry
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Author(s): Berk Ayvaz (Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey)and Ali Görener (Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ulas Akkucuk (Bogazici University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9723-2.ch008

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Abstract

Recently, due to the rapid world population growth, decreasing of natural resources and raw materials, increasing environmental awareness, interesting for wasting raw materials, using produced products more efficiently, and reusing of sources is rapidly increasing. Nowadays, reverse logistics as an important business strategy for profitable and sustainability is becoming important. The effective implementation of reverse logistics gives companies a competitive advantage in sectors. Due to mentioned reasons firms intend to incorporate reverse logistics activities such as the recovery, remanufacturing, recycling or disposal. Reverse logistics has become increasingly important as a profitable and sustainable business strategy. Therefore, more and more manufacturers have adapted the practice of recovering value from returned products and integrate product recovery activities into their processes. The electronic industry is one of the fastest growing manufacturing industries and the main purpose of this chapter is to explore the opportunities for waste returns within this sector.

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