Sustainable logistics network for wood flow considering cascade utilisation

Transportation accounts for 89% of total logistics costs.

“Taskhiri et al. (2016) find that transportation accounts for 89% of total logistics costs”

Logistics is a factor that limits the implementation of cascading practices due to the difficulty and economic expenses related to collection and transportation of waste wood.

“In particular, Garcia and Hora (2017), Keegan et al. (2013) and Taskhiri et al. (2016) name logistics as a factor that limits the implementation of cascading practices due to the sheer difficulty and economic expenses related to the collection of waste wood and its transportation from a collection site to a recycling facility and then, to a distribution network.”

A lack of specific incentives to promote and sustain the material use of wood is an important barrier.

“In addition, a lack of specific incentives to promote and sustain the material use of wood is stated in the literature as an important barrier (e.g., Husgafvel et al., 2018;Taskhiri et al., 2016;Winder and Bobar, 2018).”