An Analysis of Comprehensive Effects of Recycling and Remanufacturing End-of-life Products

Different recycle channels and product features always lead to different economic and environmental effects for end-of-life products. For an enterprise, the top priority is to find whether the recycle of end-of-life products will make positive economic effects, which are the prerequisite of its remanufacture behavior. And then it will choose the most efficient recycling system of end-of-life products to optimize its profit. As for government, it need to know the comprehensive effects of different end-of-life products and different recycling channels to make out proper policy which could encourage enterprises' recycling and remanufacturing behaviors. This paper utilizes the method of input-and-output to calculate economic and environmental effects of remanufacturing end-of-life products respectively, and finally induce its comprehensive effects. Through our research, we conclude that recycle-and-remanufacture end-of-life products could be categorized into four types and government could accordingly take different policies to encourage them.