
340 Principles of Supply Chain Management
At the present time, a substantial portion of products that enter landlls can be recycled.
The challenge for RSCs is to improve the collection and recycling systems to reenter a
much higher percentage of products into extended useful lives. We describe the need for
an integrated system later in the chapter. One of the most active disposal programs is
the disposal of close to 300 million automobile tires each year, just in the United States
(Crandall 2012).
Hazardous Waste Disposal
The intent is that eventually only benign materials are put into normal landlls and toxic
or hazardous materials become a ...