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Product Take-Back Legislation and Its Impact on Recycling and Remanufacturing Industries

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Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ((ISOR,volume 174))

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Take-back legislation holds producers financially responsible for handling and treating their products at end of life. A growing number of countries around the world have enacted such legislation, especially for electrical and electronic products. Clearly, such legislation impacts the strategic and operational decisions of companies operating in the affected industries and the operations management literature recently started to analyze these problems. In this chapter, we provide an overview of existing take-back legislation and the papers that have studied various research questions associated with them. Our focus is particularly on papers that have studied the impact of these regulations on the recycling and remanufacturing industries.

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    For example, 1 metric ton of electronic scrap from obsolete computers contains more gold than 17 metric tons of gold ore (http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs060–01/fs060–01).

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  1. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, 2100 Neil Avenue, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Gökçe Esenduran

  2. Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB Number 3490, 27599, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Eda Kemahlioğlu-Ziya & Jayashankar M. Swaminathan

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Esenduran, G., Kemahlioğlu-Ziya, E., Swaminathan, J.M. (2012). Product Take-Back Legislation and Its Impact on Recycling and Remanufacturing Industries. In: Boone, T., Jayaraman, V., Ganeshan, R. (eds) Sustainable Supply Chains. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 174. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6105-1_9

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