Rapid urbanization, intensified industrialization, rise of income, and a more sophisticated form of consumerism are leading to an increase in the amount and toxicity of waste all over the world. Whether reused, recycled, incinerated or put into landfill sites, the management of household and industrial waste yield financial and environmental costs. | Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research 24 (2014), Number 3, 371-381 DOI: PLANNING LOGISTICS NETWORK FOR RECYCLABLES COLLECTION Branislava RATKOVIĆ, Dražen POPOVIĆ, Gordana RADIVOJEVIĆ, Nenad BJELIĆ Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia Received: April 2014 / Accepted: May 2014 Abstract: Rapid urbanization, intensified industrialization, rise of income, and a more sophisticated form of consumerism are leading to an increase in the amount and toxicity of waste all over the world. Whether reused, recycled, incinerated or put into landfill sites, the management of household and industrial waste yield financial and environmental costs. This paper presents a modeling approach that can be used for designing one part of recycling logistics network through defining optimal locations of collection points, and possible optimal scheduling of vehicles for collecting recyclables. Keywords: Recycling, Collection, Location theory, Scheduling. MSC: 90B06. 1. INTRODUCTION Managing solid waste efficiently and affordably is one of the key challenges of the 21st century. Solid waste represents an enormous loss of resources be it in the form of materials or energy. In addition, waste management itself creates environmental damage. The increase in municipal waste generation in OECD countries was about 58% from 1980 to 2000, and between 2000 and 2005 [9]. In 2030, the non-OECD area is expected to produce about 70% of the world’s municipal waste, mainly due to rising incomes, rapid urbanization, and technical and economic development. During the past 10–20 years, high-income countries have been rediscovering the value of recycling as an integral part of their waste (and resource) management systems, and have invested 372 B. Ratković, D. Popović, G. Radivojević, N. Bjelić / Planning Logistics Network heavily in both physical infrastructure and communication strategies to increase .
