Modelling and research on manufacturer's capacity of remanufacturing and recycling in closed-loop supply chain

This paper introduces and analyses the present situation of the electronic waste recycling at home and abroad. Involving manufacturers in the recycling process of supply chain as the dominant party and establishing the closed-loop supply chain system structure model of the waste electronic products recycling, the effects of remanufacturing capacity and recycling coefficient on the closed-loop supply chain recycling network are analysed by using system dynamics method. The simulation results show that, compared with the traditional supply chain, the total revenue of the supply chain under the recycling mode dominated by manufacturers has improved, that the increase of the remanufacturing capacity has promoted the growth of the electronic product's sales rate, which reaches a equilibrium when remanufacturing capacity is set as 0.36, and that the recycling efficiency of e-waste has improved significantly as the e-waste recycling coefficient constantly increased.