Abstract The European Union directive for electric and electronic waste, published in 2003,
enforced all European countries to meet some targets concerning the recycling and recovery
of these products. This directive was transposed to the Portuguese legislation in 2004.
Following this, a group of EEE producers set up an organization (Amb3e) whose mission
was to design and manage a nationwide recovery network for WEEE, which will be the
subject matter of this work. A generic MILP model is proposed to represent this network …

The European Union directive for electric and electronic waste, published in 2003, enforced
all European countries to meet some targets concerning the recycling and recovery of these
products. This directive was transposed to the Portuguese legislation in 2004. Following this,
a group of EEE producers set up an organization (Amb3e) whose mission was to design and
manage a nationwide recovery network for WEEE, which will be the subject matter of this
work. A generic MILP model is proposed to represent this network, which is applied to its …