The Rubber Industry and Extended Producers' Responsibility Framework: Opportunities and Threats for Swedish Rubber Manufacturers
Författare
Summary, in English
An array of sustainable ways either to reduce the amount of waste rubber generated or for the re-utilisation of waste rubber products as different means of resources at the end of their service lives are provided and briefly evaluated from economic, social and environmental perspectives. Potential measures which the Swedish rubber industry and its major stakeholders can implement (within the context of extended producer’s responsibility framework) to increase source reduction, reuse, material recycling, and energy recovery from waste rubber are examined. Based on the concept of system dynamics, the links between different issues, possible problems arising from them and the solutions, and their relation to the sustainable waste rubber management system are analysed by understanding the cause and effect relationship between important parameters. A model is developed using Stella 5.1.1u to help the decision makers to evaluate different scenarios in Swedish waste rubber management.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2002
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
88-89
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proceeding of the 20th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
System Dynamics Society
Ämne
- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
Conference name
The 20th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society
Conference date
2002-07-28 - 2002-08-01
Conference place
Palermo, Italy
Status
Published