This study explores the current practices of Design for Deconstruction (DfD) as a strategy for
achieving circular economy. Keeping in view the opportunities accruable from DfD, a review …

Sustainable development (SD) will be the driving force to Twenty-first Century as automation
was to the Twentieth Century and stream was to Nineteenth Century. There are two levels of …

This paper presents an empirical study on the impact of maintenance function on more
sustainable manufacturing processes. The work methodology comprises four stages. At first …

Ecology and industry, which have been many times considered as antagonists, are now
associated together in the sustainability concept to support the three social/economic …

Purpose Sustainable end-of-life (Sus-EoL) practices can be achieved through
manufacturing of sustainable products, and recovery and recycling after the use phase. To …

Organisations offer products to consumers, buyers often question if the product or its
production process are linked to the environmental, social or economic challenges being …

The disassembly activity, regarding as the crucial stage in recycling operations, has
attracted increasing focus owing to the significance of eco-economics and environmental …

Background: The wide variety of terms that converge in reverse logistics have been more
evident and discussed in the current context of the literature, such as reverse channels …

Goal: The need to discuss reverse logistics processes with a detailed and analytical
approach, aiming at improving the reverse channel efficiency is notorious in the literature …

The stochastic models of systems with reverse logistics usually assume that the quantity of
products returned is independent of sales. This hypothesis is obviously not true and can …