Structuring the Issues of Cooperative Transport in Reverse Logistics for Efficient Material Recycling

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The costs required for transportation in the process of waste recycling are very high and become a serious bottleneck for promoting recycling. From the characteristics of reverse logistics for waste transportation, cooperative transport is expected to be an effective way for improving transport efficiency. However, cooperative transport is barely implemented in practices. This research aims to examine the actual situation of reverse logistics, and extracts the issues and successful factors of implementing cooperative transport based on case study of real practices. The stakeholder analysis using problem structuring method finds out that the common external factors of successful cases are large scale of the business while small number of stakeholders involved in cooperative transport. The analysis on the interest of stakeholders indicates the importance of internalizing the incentive of cooperative transport among stakeholders.