Design of a recovery network in Portugal: the electric and electronic equipment case

Design of a recovery network in Portugal: the electric and electronic equipment case

An European directive established that all EU countries must have, until the end of 2006, a recovery network for the electric and electronic equipment waste (WEEE). In Portugal, a group of producers formed a non-profit organization to design and manage this waste flow. In this work, a model develope...

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Hauptverfasser: Salema, M.I.G., Barbosa-Povoa, A.P., Novais, A.Q.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
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electric and electronic equipment
facility location
Law
Legal factors
optimization model
Organizations
Planning
Recovery network
Sorting
Transportation
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Zusammenfassung:An European directive established that all EU countries must have, until the end of 2006, a recovery network for the electric and electronic equipment waste (WEEE). In Portugal, a group of producers formed a non-profit organization to design and manage this waste flow. In this work, a model developed previously by the authors to design and plan a generic WEEE network is presented and applied to the Portuguese case. The results obtained are discussed and compared with the network that is currently operating.
ISSN:2159-3590
2159-3604
DOI:10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618017