Reverse Supply Chain Model Research Of Unused、Unwanted Or Expired Medications Based On Recycling Point Incentive Mechanism

With the social development and the improvement of living standards of medical, the inventory of household unused, unwanted, or expired medications is growing. As early as the year of 2007, a survey showed that the quantity of expired drugs up to 1.5 tons one year. The particularity of the drug makes it different from other waste products, while on the one hand discarding unused, unwanted, or expired medications makes damage to the environment, on the other hand these medications are ingested, or circulation to the illicit market, will pose a major threat to people’s health and life. In recent years, the community gradually recognizing the hazards of unused、 unwanted、or expired medications, and they fully affirmed the necessity and urgency of medication recycling and disposal, but due to lack of standardized on medication recycling, recycling of household unused、unwanted、or expired medications at this stage is undesirable, the enthusiasm of enterprises and consumers is not enough, it is urgent to study and formulate management mechanism.Based on the above background, this paper will focus on the current situation of household waste medications recycling, to explore factors that influence consumers to recycle medications. For analysis of the results of the questionnaire, that is recycling points can forward to promote consumers’participation in recycling, designed a framework for recovery management system for household unused、unwanted、or expired medications, and the management framework regards the recycling points system as the main line. Besides the author describes the role and their respective duties of the system, including government, manufacturers, and retailers.In the second part of this paper, we established a reverse supply chain decision-making model under the management framework of medication recycling. Under the mechanism of government subsidies, retailers are responsible for recycling channels, under these situations, we compared the case of manufacturers taking the leading place with the case of retailers taking the leading place, to observe the different decisions of them and the impact on their effectiveness. The study founded conclusions as follows:recycling points system can ensure government to get overall social benefits, so do the manufacturers and retailers. It demonstrates the effectiveness of the management framework and models, and the recycling points system played an important role in it. Finally, by a numerical example, founded that the benefits of manufacturers and retailers can increase with the increase of recycling points value rate and so on.The fifth chapter illustrates the value of recycling unused、unwanted、or expired medications by an examples, moreover, the management mechanism of GY company in this case is optimized under this thesis’s conclusion, at last, the author gives some applied strategies used in medications’recycling activities for GY company.From social actual situation, this paper know that household unused、unwanted、 or expired medications recycling situation is severe, explored the factors that influence recycling behavior. Then with a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, formulated the medication recycling management framework, and it has certain practical significance. And it established the theoretical model of how to make the best decisions in the reverse supply chain, at the end, elaborated the application and prospect of medications recycling by a case. We are hoping to provide a reference point and inspiration for the implementation of household unused% unwanted、or expired medications recycling.