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Sustainable Location Identification Decision Protocol (SuLIDeP) For Determining The Location Of Recycling Centres In A Circular Economy

Landfill restrictions on certain materials and products have provided the impetus to seek for a more sustainable utilisation of waste in a circular economy. These restrictions compounded with legislation and value factors necessitate an urgent solution to address the issue of carbon or glass fibre r...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Sultan, Al Amin, Mativenga, Paul Tarisai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2019
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T Technology (General)
TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Online Access:http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24049/2/Cleaner%202019.pdf
http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24049/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619307954
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.104
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spelling my.utem.eprints.240492020-03-05T12:14:22Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24049/ Sustainable Location Identification Decision Protocol (SuLIDeP) For Determining The Location Of Recycling Centres In A Circular Economy Mohamed Sultan, Al Amin Mativenga, Paul Tarisai T Technology (General) TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Landfill restrictions on certain materials and products have provided the impetus to seek for a more sustainable utilisation of waste in a circular economy. These restrictions compounded with legislation and value factors necessitate an urgent solution to address the issue of carbon or glass fibre reinforced composite waste disposal. There is currently no mutual agreement on waste ownership among stakeholders. This study examined composite manufacturers in the United Kingdom and determined the waste volumes available within these companies. A new approach that combined mathematical modelling of supply chain complexity, centre-of-gravity method and K-Means algorithm was developed to determine the optimum location of third parties that could process waste for a number of supply chain providers. The paper is a presentation of new knowledge and proposes a scientific approach for identifying possible optimum locations for recycling centres. More significantly, this process could be used for clustering and reducing supply chains complexity to enable the setting up of multiple and optimally located recycling centres. The results have indicated that the approach could minimize carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emission associated with transporting cores or waste to processing centres. This work is of generic importance that could be implemented across other waste and aspects of a circular economy such as remanufacturing. Elsevier Ltd. 2019-03 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24049/2/Cleaner%202019.pdf Mohamed Sultan, Al Amin and Mativenga, Paul Tarisai (2019) Sustainable Location Identification Decision Protocol (SuLIDeP) For Determining The Location Of Recycling Centres In A Circular Economy. Journal Of Cleaner Production, 223. pp. 508-521. ISSN 0959-6526 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619307954 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.104
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topic T Technology (General)
TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Mohamed Sultan, Al Amin
Mativenga, Paul Tarisai
Sustainable Location Identification Decision Protocol (SuLIDeP) For Determining The Location Of Recycling Centres In A Circular Economy
description Landfill restrictions on certain materials and products have provided the impetus to seek for a more sustainable utilisation of waste in a circular economy. These restrictions compounded with legislation and value factors necessitate an urgent solution to address the issue of carbon or glass fibre reinforced composite waste disposal. There is currently no mutual agreement on waste ownership among stakeholders. This study examined composite manufacturers in the United Kingdom and determined the waste volumes available within these companies. A new approach that combined mathematical modelling of supply chain complexity, centre-of-gravity method and K-Means algorithm was developed to determine the optimum location of third parties that could process waste for a number of supply chain providers. The paper is a presentation of new knowledge and proposes a scientific approach for identifying possible optimum locations for recycling centres. More significantly, this process could be used for clustering and reducing supply chains complexity to enable the setting up of multiple and optimally located recycling centres. The results have indicated that the approach could minimize carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emission associated with transporting cores or waste to processing centres. This work is of generic importance that could be implemented across other waste and aspects of a circular economy such as remanufacturing.
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author Mohamed Sultan, Al Amin
Mativenga, Paul Tarisai
author_facet Mohamed Sultan, Al Amin
Mativenga, Paul Tarisai
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title Sustainable Location Identification Decision Protocol (SuLIDeP) For Determining The Location Of Recycling Centres In A Circular Economy
title_short Sustainable Location Identification Decision Protocol (SuLIDeP) For Determining The Location Of Recycling Centres In A Circular Economy
title_full Sustainable Location Identification Decision Protocol (SuLIDeP) For Determining The Location Of Recycling Centres In A Circular Economy
title_fullStr Sustainable Location Identification Decision Protocol (SuLIDeP) For Determining The Location Of Recycling Centres In A Circular Economy
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable Location Identification Decision Protocol (SuLIDeP) For Determining The Location Of Recycling Centres In A Circular Economy
title_sort sustainable location identification decision protocol (sulidep) for determining the location of recycling centres in a circular economy
publisher Elsevier Ltd.
publishDate 2019
url http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24049/2/Cleaner%202019.pdf
http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24049/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619307954
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.104
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