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Environmental and reverse logistics policies in European and packaging firms

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Concern for the environment has led many firms to define policies that protect the environment within which they operate. This concern is reflected in all the activities of the product life cycle, both in those of direct logistics as well as reverse logistics. In order to set up environmentally friendly practices, bottling/packaging firms must maintain collaborative relations both upstream and downstream in the glass container value chain. This paper analyses the differences existing in the relations between bottling/packaging firms belonging to the food and drinks sector and their suppliers (fundamentally bottle/jar manufacturers) and their customers (end consumers of the packaged or bottled products) in two European countries with different characteristics: Spain and Belgium. The joint implantation of environmental practices was also studied, and more specifically those corresponding to the activities of reverse logistics. r 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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... On the opposite side no of clients helping society assurance by conveying their pre-owned items to assortment focuses is increasing. [5] As indicated by the overview, the all-out expense that happened in RSCM is the exceptionally gigantic sum, and to diminish it, high use of assortment focuses, choice of proper area are basic issues. [3] Even more unequivocally, figuring out coordination is the path toward moving product from their average last objective with the ultimate objective of getting worth, or fitting expulsion. ...
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... As a result, there is a link between economic motivation and solid waste management in this case. From the results of this survey, reverse logistics and solid waste management contribute to economic growth and improved company performance, and this finding is consistent with the findings [58,59] that show recycling efficiency has a positive impact on economic performance. Economic reasons, marketing aims, and company objectives are among the value drivers from this perspective. ...
... According to this survey, the legislative drive aids in the improvement of waste management to boost company performance. This study's findings are consistent with [58,60,61], which suggested that businesses are affected by regulatory and environmental legislation. The chi-square statistic would seem in the value column right portion of "Pearson chisquare" in the result shown in Table 14. ...
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... Indeed, reverse logistics can result in economic benefits (Chileshe et al., 2016). Such benefits include savings from the reuse of low-cost inputs at a fraction of the manufacturing costs from raw materials (Lund, 1984), the recovery of the value still incorporated in the used product (Gonzalez-Torre et al., 2004), the reduced transportation and disposal costs, and the revenue generated by the sale of salvaged materials (Laefer and Manke, 2008;Leigh and Patterson, 2006). ...
... In this vein, Gonzalez-Torre (2004) emphasized the importance of collaborating with customers to favour the usage of reusable containers in reverse logistics in the bottling sector. ...
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... In this paper, we focus on collaborative opportunities in the third stage of the process. Bottling and packaging products have been identified as tasks where collaboration among different firms can be useful not only from cost savings and service level perspectives but also from an environmental perspective [27] . ...
... Constraints (26) establish the relationship between cost allocation and the proportion of cost allocated. Constraints (27) state that cost splitting can be developed only within a formed coalition. Constraints (28) are logical relationships which, together with (24) and (26) , provide that the cost allocation is performed only among the members of a formed coalition. ...
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... Green packaging should mainly be concerned with returnable packaging, reused packaging, and recyclable packaging (Gonzalez, 2004). Though packaging makes it easier to transport and promote a product, it does not offer value to the consumer. ...
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... The influence of reverse logistics practices on firm environmental performance Firms adopt reverse logistics practices due to economic benefits associated with them (Hazen et al., 2015;Jack et al., 2010;Skinner et al., 2008). Therefore, as Gonzalez-Torre et al. (2004) postulate, firms can become more environmentally efficient by designing and implementing appropriate reverse logistics practices. Reverse logistics practices positively relate with the ability of firms to control costs (Fernando et al., 2017;Jack et al., 2010). ...
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... Ytc pci = YI pis ∀S ∈ Si ∈ I, p ∈ P -Conversion: Let Frm pm, Frr pr, and Fry py represent the fractions of product p appropriate for remanufacturing center m, recycling center r, and energy recovery center y, respectively. Constraints (21)(22)(23)(24) guarantee that the percentage of end-of-use products delivered for recycling r, energy recovery y, remanufacturing center m and landfill site l comply with the quality and proportion requirements. ...
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... The unwillingness of companies to disclose information to their suppliers is still a major hurdle in the process of supplier integration (Dominic, 2013). Increased information sharing would allow for better relationships as well as better price negotiations, quality of decisions, profit (Jabarzare and Rasti-Barzoki, 2020) and environmental performance (Gonzalez-Torre et al., 2004). Morgado (2008) describes a case study of vertical integration of a packaging company, where the facilities are built within their client's plant, resulting in benefits for both parties. ...
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... However, legislation and directives, consumer awareness and social responsibilities towards environment are strong factors to make the logistics firms to head towards to reverse logistics (Pokharel and Mutha, 2009). On the hand, to develop innovative competition strategies in logistics area, logistics firms have to follow a series of trends as environmentally oriented design, total quality environmental management, life cycle analysis, green supply chain management and ISO 14000 standards (Gonzalez-Torre et al., 2004). ...
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... Further, Tang et al. (2016) suggest that companies may build their warehouses in places that ensure the use of alternative ecofriendly transportation modes to advance supply chain sustainability. According to Dowlatshahi (2000) and Gonzalez-Torre et al. (2004), the development of reverse logistics channels decreases the usage of resources, and improves recycling and reuse of products leading to improvement in the achievement of supply chain sustainability objectives. Reverse logistics is a concept that involves reclaiming, inspecting/ selecting/sorting, re-processing/direct recovering and redistributing products to retrieve value (Hansen et al., 2018). ...
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... Legal, social, and economic pressures make business managers look for the best way to define and adopt practices that protect the environment in which they operate (Prakash and Barua, 2016;Xie et al., 2019). This concern is spreading to all product life cycle activities (González-Torre et al., 2004;Guo et al., 2017;Prakash and Barua, 2016). ...
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... Thus, a need has been identified for systematic approaches to understand, design and deal with the uncertainty of reverse flows along a SC and to reduce their increasing environmental impact. Along these lines, research has been conducted in specific industries such as in bottled products [9] and mobile phones [14]. Nowadays, RL scenarios involving E-waste management-i.e., electronic components that are considered obsolete or no longer functioning -are of particular interest: it contains valuable materials that should be recovered, as well as hazardous substances that require special handling to minimize pollution concerns. ...
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