THE RECYCLING POTENTIAL OF PACKING WASTE IN TURKEY: ANALISED BY LINEAR PROGRAMING AND FUZZY LOGIC METHOD

Abstract

The reason for the focusing on activities in the process starts from the raw material stage and ends with product delivery to the customer is that usage of the word -logistics- solely for the traditional (forward) logistics applications for a long time. But, changing environmental conditions such as producers not only limited to the sale of responsibility for these products, but also collecting these products in the supply chain after usage by consumers and make them reusable, disposing some of them that cannot be recycled appropriately to natural conditions, preventing waste and constructing the sustainable development infrastructure has led to the emergence of the "reverse logistics? concept. So the concept of logistics has become a broader concept including reverse logistics applications corresponding to recoveries of products. Collection of returned items, re-processing them and post-process redistribution of them are among these reverse logistics applications. Enterprises perform these operations in all recovery due to the convenience of recovery technique for them. Recycling can be by some applications such as recycling of products, repairing, remanufacturing, refurbishing or making product robust. The aim of this study is, provided that it is limited by recycling as a form of recovery, to optimize reverse logistics costs by using fuzzy linear programming model in a real-time waste collection facility.