Remanufacture for sustainability: Barriers and solutions to promote automotive remanufacturing

摘要

Remanufacturing is a proven sustainable product recovery strategy which returns used products to their original state with minimum waste of material and energy. Nevertheless, there are barriers that prevent remanufacturing activities globally. Thus, the purpose of this research was to investigate the present barriers for remanufacturing and propose solutions to the major barriers pertinent to the automotive remanufacturing industry in Sri Lanka. Thematic analysis of related literature, Semi-structured interviews and industrial case studies were conducted to identify the barriers. Pair-wise comparison was used to prioritise them. The prioritised barriers were listed, and solutions are proposed to promote local/regional automotive remanufacturing.