Abstract

There are many established community-based waste banks in order to overcome the domestic waste, especially plastics. However, those existing waste banks did not provide sufficient economic benefits for the society. The aim of this research is to develop an integrated e-logistic system between the community-based waste banks and recycled plastics production process. This research proposes the e-logistic conceptual model for plastic waste, including raw material data in each bank, so that the data can be online monitored in real-time by each waste bank and by the manager of the recycled plastic production process. This research has the same spirit as the previous one in building an efficient logistic mechanism. Nevertheless, the proposed model is developed to not only input and record the plastic waste data as raw material, and indicate the location of the waste banks, but also incorporate a production system of the recycled plastic product and create a transportation system between the waste banks and the production facilities. The model examines an economic feasibility study by considering plastic waste supply and the added values of each stakeholder. Using the proposed model, the decision-makers can solve the plastic waste problems and reduce the environmental impacts. Furthermore, by implementing it, they may develop the recycled plastic industries and increase society’s prosperity.

Keywords

E-logistic, community-based waste bank, plastic recycle, transportation system, efficient logistic.