抄録
Waste reduction policy by promotion of recycling has been introduced in several countries. Redemption System in the state of California (U.S.A.) has achieved its goal at least cost. This study illustrates the optimal features of this system in achieving the target recycling rate within budget constraints. We take into account for consumer inconvenience as cost and we consider the case when the inconvenience of the consumers to return can be described as a linear function of the distance from the collection stations. The theoretical analysis revealed that the optimum refund size does not depend on the target recycle rate. Thus, a policy of dispersing the collection stations and not raising the refund rate resulted in the optimum performance.
