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Planning of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling facilities: MILP modelling and case study investigation

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Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) consist of many different substances some of which contain hazardous components and valuable materials. The recovery of WEEE plays a key role on environmental sustainability because it minimizes the negative effects of hazardous materials and helps the efficient use of world’s limited resources. Recovery strategies enable companies to collect reusable components and to recycle the material content of WEEE by using operations like sorting, disassembly and bulk recycling. Usually companies associated with municipals collect WEEE from end-users and/or collection points. Then they sell these items to WEEE recycling facilities through bidding. For recycling facilities, it is important to generate the best operational level decisions to receive and handle WEEE. This study contributes to the fulfillment of this need by presenting a mixed integer linear programming model to determine the maximum bid price offer while determining the best operation planning strategies. In order to demonstrate the potential of the proposed model, a real life case study along with several scenarios is studied. The findings of the case study indicate that the model has the potential to enable the decision maker to come with stronger decisions related to both bidding process and operational strategies of the facility.

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The authors are indebted to the anonymous referees and the Editor for several suggestions, which substantially improved the paper. This research is partially funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under the Grant Number 111M428. The authors wish to acknowledge this valuable support.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Corlu Engineering, Namık Kemal University, 59860, Corlu, Tekirdag, Turkey

    Ozan Capraz

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Pamukkale University, 20160, Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkey

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Table 5 Data for each WEEE type in the current situation
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Table 6 Data for evaluating the current situation
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Table 7 Data for each WEEE type in the proposed situation
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Table 8 Data for evaluating the proposed situation
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Capraz, O., Polat, O. & Gungor, A. Planning of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling facilities: MILP modelling and case study investigation. Flex Serv Manuf J 27, 479–508 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10696-015-9217-3

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