Dezentrale Koordination von Stoffströmen in Recyclingnetzwerken

New legal regulations assign an extended product responsibility to the manufacturers, e.g. in the field of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. Therefore, recycling of discarded products becomes increasingly important. For Waste Electrical and Electronic equipment, recycling is usually carried out by service providers, which are organised in recycling networks. In such networks of independent companies, centralized planning is not possible and therefore, a decentralized coordination mechanism is necessary. Within the article, a 2-level coordination approach is developed. This approach seems to be a good starting point for an efficient assignment of recycling tasks within the network, if a central planner is not present. The functionality of the approach is demonstrated based on an example.