The traditional treatment of end-of-life vehicles mainly focuses on de-pollution measures and metal recycling. The VW-SiCon process, presented here, was developed in order to meet the legal requirements, given by the European directive on end of life vehicles (2000/53/EC) under the pre-requisites of a sustainable development. The VW-SiCon process combines economical and ecological advantages co...

Enterprises have assigned increasing importance to remanufacturing, and meanwhile, the competitiveness of remanufacturing has also become established. In this article, game theory is exploited and government subsidies for remanufacturing, consumer willingness to pay and recycling competition are considered, with a focus on a supply chain consisting of one local manufacturer and one nonlocal rem...

Manufacturers have experienced institutional pressures in the form of market and regulatory demands to conform to the standards dictated by environmental regulations. The primary forces are studied for three industry sectors (automotive, consumer appliances and electronic) to close the supply chain loop in the product lifecycle. The first deals with identifying the drivers of a growing market f...

The Mino ware production area, located almost at the very center of Japan, is an area that produces traditional ceramic ware and a place where small-sized companies that specialize in the mass production of everyday tableware are concentrated. While the need to find solutions to environmental issues, such as waste issues and global warming, has become more pressing, in order for the Mino ware t...

this paper investigates householders’ attitudes to the recycling of solid wastes in one part of northern malaysia, namely alor setar town, kedah state. a postal questionnaire survey was administered to households in alor setar town in selected areas of high, middle and low incomes. 389 responses were obtained, a response rate of 86.4%. a personal interview with an official of the municipal co...

recycling process is one of the most important processes in the trend of sustainable development,a logical reaction against the problems that results from industrial age. building materials can play an important rolein the process of a building formation or destruction, in fact, materials forms the building nature. thus, the role ofmaterial and the impact of its recycling in sustainable develop...

The rapid growth, demand, and production of batteries to meet various emerging applications, such as electric vehicles energy storage systems, will result in waste disposal problems the next few years these reach end-of-life. Battery reuse recycling are becoming urgent worldwide priorities protect environment address increasing need for critical metals. As a review article, this paper reveals c...

At the present, auto part industries have become higher challenge in strategy market. As this consequence, manufacturers need to have better response to customers in terms of quality, cost, and delivery time. Moreover, they need to have a good management in factory to comply with international standard maximum capacity and lower cost. This would lead companies to have to order standard part fro...