We have to recycle the products that we receive here because consumers give their end-of-use products to the retailers for the purpose of recycling.
We examine the problem through product recovery chain regarding the consumer sourced product returns, end-of-use products and end-of-life products.
The main objectives of the environmental legislation originating from extended producer responsibility (EPR) principle are to lead producers to undertake recovery initiatives for their end-of-use products and to promote environmentally desirable product design.
Remanufacturing of used products enables companies to decrease production costs and also reduce raw material costs.
But the Swedish study shows the climate benefits of using products for longer.
"I think the trend of using products for a short life span comes from consumers," she said.
We need to ask ourselves whether regulation should always be in favour of using products such as e-cigarettes and how true it is that these products can lead people on to smoking.
Finally, we recommended the limit of using products containing BPA.
For example, long-term use of products, promotion of collection and reuse of used products could be effective measures.
Employees are being trained on how to show customers new ways of using products.
In the reverse flow, customers give back the percentage of used products to collection centers (CCs).
