Reverse Supply Chain Management and Electronic Waste Recycling: A Multitiered Network Equilibrium Framework for E-Cycling

In this paper, we develop an integrated framework for the modeling of reverse
supply chain management of electronic waste, which includes recycling. We describe the
behavior of the various decision-makers, consisting of the sources of electronic waste, the
recyclers, the processors, as well as the consumers associated with the demand markets for
the distinct products. We construct the multitiered e-cycling network equilibrium model,
establish the variational inequality formulation, whose solution yields the material flows as
well as the prices, and provide both qualitative properties of the equilibrium pattern as well
as numerical examples that are solved using the proposed algorithm.

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