Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages 15527-15547Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su71115527
Keywords
remanufacturing; eco-efficiency; fuzzy DEMATEL; end-of-life products
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71473077]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China [2013AA040206]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [13JJA003]
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Remanufacturing can bring considerable economic and environmental benefits such as cost saving, conservation of energy and resources, and reduction of emissions. With the increasing awareness of sustainable manufacturing, remanufacturing gradually becomes the research priority. Most studies concentrate on the analysis of influencing factors, or the evaluation of the economic and environmental performance in remanufacturing, while little effort has been devoted to investigating the critical factors influencing the eco-efficiency of remanufacturing. Considering the current development of the remanufacturing industry in China, this paper proposes a set of factors influencing the eco-efficiency of remanufacturing and then utilizes a fuzzy Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method to establish relation matrixes reflecting the interdependent relationships among these factors. Finally, the contributions of each factor to eco-efficiency and mutual influence values among them are obtained, and critical factors in eco-efficiency of remanufacturing are identified. The results of the present work can provide theoretical supports for the government to make appropriate policies to improve the eco-efficiency of remanufacturing.
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