New article by former doctoral student Eduardo A. Gerbier published

Due to the miniaturization of recycling units and their installation in standard containers, it is possible to move them from one location to another at short notice and thus react more flexibly to the spatial and temporal volume of waste. Eduardo Alarcon Gerbier (doctoral student of the Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group, project B1: Integrated production and distribution planning in SD-MSCs) has investigated with his supervisor Prof. Udo Buscher and Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. Florian Linß (both at the Faculty of Business and Economics at TU Dresden, Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management) how such mobile and modular recycling units can complement the recycling that has so far been organized mainly centrally. This means that decisions on location, production, and transport have to be made simultaneously. Methodologically, Alarcon Gerbier et al. resort to a mixed-integer programming model. It aims at relocating the mobile recycling units in such a way that the total costs for transport, recycling, and relocation are minimized. Finally, Alarcon Gerbier et al. use sensitivity analysis to show the economic value and environmental impact of mobile recycling networks. Two case studies show that the use of modular units can reduce the total cost of recycling by about 10%, although there are additional costs for operating and relocating mobile recycling units.

The publication can be accessed free of charge at the following internet address until August 12, 2023:
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1hIWJ3QCo9i~qp