The reverse logistics strategies have recently attracted the attention of both researchers
and practitioners, given its successful implementation in many companies, including
Apple, Dell and Sony. The growing number of articles on reverse logistics in the literature
is an indication of the importance of the strategy and of its role in improving the
competitiveness of an organization. Increasingly, customers expect companies to minimize
the environmental impact of their products and processes. Moreover, legislations
extending producers’ responsibility has become an important element of public
environmental policy. Several countries, in particular from Europe, have introduced
environmental legislation charging manufacturers with responsibility for the whole life
cycle of their products.
Due to the emerging issues in science and technology, we have observed many new
facets of technology which has both pros and cons. As for ‘cons’, the waste, such as
electronics scrap and automobile scrap, is a major threat to our environment. Ultimately,
legislations have to be made mandatory in checking and minimizing the waste that affects
the environment. In emerging economies like India, a majority of the population neither
thinks about returning any long used products, nor has any less awareness about product
disposal through proper channel; for example, long used mixer-grinder of household after
reaching its obsolescence stage of PLC. A majority of consumers dispose it as garbage or
sell it as scrap, which leads to unorganized environmental pollution. To control these
kinds of issues in day-to-day activities of human life as well as industrial activities, one
of the feasible solutions is incorporating reverse logistics.
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