Türkiye'de ömrünü tamamlamış araçların yönetimi

All products and services have certain life cycles. The life cycle refers to the period from the product?s first launch into the market until its final withdrawal. After product?s useful life, it will enter to end of life stage and it should be collected from customers to treat properly. End of Life Vehicles (ELVs) are cars and light trucks that are considered waste and that must be disposed of. If the disabled automobiles can?t be recycled in time and effectively, much resource will be wasted and the environment will be polluted as well. Countries which are aware of these dangers made their laws to obligate producers to collect and treat ELVs properly.ELV Directive in Turkey also obligates vehicle producers to collect ELVs from end customers where producer denotes retail or corporate merchant who is manufacturer of vehicle or professional importer of vehicle for commercial purposes. Since building ELV delivery plants and transportation of ELVs to collection and processing centers without demanding any price are producers? responsibilities, these operations should be realized in a cost effective way.In this study, a model has been developed to minimize recovery cost of ELVs by considering ELV Directive in Turkey. This model decides which facilities should be opened and assignment of a facility to the next stage facility in reverse logistics network. Also Turkey?s current ELV reverse logistics network has been investigated and facility assignments that minimize the cost of parts and material flow between facilities have been specified. Reuse and recycling rates have been changed to state the effect of these parameters in cost of reverse logistic activities.