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Abstract
Sustainability has emerged as a global concem in the last decade. Issues like global warming, depletion of natural resources, and high pollution rates have all driven governments worldwide to pursue sustainable development. Industrialized and developing countries alike share responsibilities towards saving natural resources and improving the environmental status. Yet, developing countries face more challenges in this respect. Limited financial resources, lack of infonnation, high population growth rate, and low environmental consciousness of the public are among these challenges.
Old vehicles represent one major source of air pollution and energy consumption in addition to the traffic problems they cause. Nevertheless, they may represent a valuable source of raw material when properly recovered or disposed of. The implementation of recovery operations have also a social impact through initiating new job oppOliunities and local development. The current research aims at designing a logistics network for the treatment of End-of-life vehicles (ELV). Actors in the system are numerous with different interests: governmental authorities, EL V owners, recyclers, spare pali dealers, and corporations in the automotive sector. This research work considers the interest of the different actors which may be conflicting. Economic, environmental, and social aspects are addressed in the analysis. The deliverables of the proposed marhematical model include:
• Selecting the location for the different facilities.
• Detennine the amount to be allocated to the different end oflife (EOL) options.
• Developing guidelines to setting disposal and recycling target values.
• Determining factors affecting the recovery operation.
A lexicographic mixed integer goal programming model is used to formulate the problem. Three goals addressing the economic and environmental dimensions have been used. The devised model consists of 5370 variables and 3481 linear constraints, and has been solved via LINGO software. The economic goal is addresses the net income, while the environmental goals relate to the amount recycled and disposed.
The proposed network aims at the establishment of a visible and traceable system for recovering EL Vs in a sustainable manner. The target is to cease the inefficient and scattered practices associated with EL V s, and simultaneously enhance the recycling and reuse activities.