Research Group on Logistics, Transport and Sustainability (LogTranS), Industrial Engineering and Management Institute (IEPG), Federal University of Itajuba (UNIFEI), Itajuba, Brazil.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2019 Aug;26(23):23994-24009. doi: 10.1007/s11356-019-05559-3. Epub 2019 Jun 20.
Tires require adequate disposal at the end of their useful life due to the environmental damage that improper disposal can cause. Since the 1990s, Brazilian legislation has laid out specific rules for tire disposal. This brought about results in 2017, when 93% of the target was met for environmentally correct tire disposal, according to the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources. To reach this index, consumers, business people, city halls, and manufacturers had to work together. However, cities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants continued to encounter difficulties to carry out the process efficiently. Thus, the objective of this study is to propose new alternatives so that small cities can plan and implement reverse logistics management for unusable tires. The tool used to verify improvement was discrete event simulation, which allowed for the creation of scenarios, experimenting with changes to the consortium's operation. The analysis confirms that the consortium of cities can have a more efficient process in the destination of tires, with the possibility of reducing costs by 15%, emission of pollutant gases by 71%, and CO by 57%.
由于不当处理会对环境造成破坏，轮胎在使用寿命结束后需要进行适当的处理。自 20 世纪 90 年代以来，巴西立法机构已经制定了轮胎处理的具体规定。根据巴西环境和可再生自然资源研究所的数据，这一规定在 2017 年取得了成果，当时 93%的目标是实现对环境无害的轮胎处理。为了达到这一指标，消费者、企业、市政当局和制造商必须共同努力。然而，人口不足 10 万的城市在有效实施这一过程方面仍然存在困难。因此，本研究的目的是提出新的选择，使小城市能够规划和实施不可用轮胎的逆向物流管理。用于验证改进的工具是离散事件模拟，它允许创建场景，实验性地改变财团的运作。分析结果证实，城市财团可以在轮胎处理方面实现更高效的流程，有可能降低 15%的成本，减少 71%的污染物气体排放和 57%的 CO 排放。
