Over 161 million tonnes of plastic packaging is produced annually, yet only a small fraction
of plastic packaging is recycled. To help eliminate unnecessary plastic packaging and its …

Industrial packaging can enable efficient and sustainable logistics activities throughout
supply chains. Such activities have a great impact on a company's sustainability …

Global trading activities rely heavily on several billions of transport packaging and
returnable transport items, including pallets, containers, and crates, facilitating efficient …

This paper proposes a new approach, ie, virtual pooling, for optimising returnable transport
item (RTI) flows in a two-level closed-loop supply chain. The supply chain comprises a set of …

The sustainability of modern supply chains is intricately linked to the efficiency of reusable
transport items (RTI). This study addresses the challenge of ensuring the timely return of …

Returnable transport items (RTIs) are widely used in multimodal transport systems.
However, due to the lack of effective tracking methods, RTIs management efficiency is low …

BACKGROUND In modern food supply chains it is becoming increasingly important for
companies to have sustainable product packaging systems. Deciding the protection …

Today's automotive factories are essentially assembly plants that receive parts from a vast
network of suppliers around the world. Transporting thousands of part types over very long …

In modern logistics, companies and packaging engineers have to make decisions to find the
optimal sustainable product-packaging system with adequate protection. The decision most …

Due to its many benefits, the automotive industry is increasingly focused on the use of
returnable packaging, but the benefits of using it can only be fully realized if the system is …