Effect of the Fund Policy in a Remanufacturing System considering Ecodesign and Responsibility Transfer

Table 1

Notations.

		Descriptions
Parameters		Waste tax per unit product sold to consumers imposed by the regulator on the manufacturer
		Tax reduction coefficient per unit product given by the government for encouraging the manufacture’s ecodesign activity,
		Unit subsidy per unit remanufactured product received from the regulator
		The sensitivity of production cost to the ecodesign
		Consumer’s willingness to pay for the remanufactured product
		Unit production cost of a new product
		Unit production cost of a remanufactured product
		Unit cost of a key component
		The unit cost savings of production through remanufacturing,
		Unit remanufacturing cost reduction coefficient that the manufacturer’s ecodesign brings to the remanufacturer
		A buyer-specific wholesale price of the key component to the remanufacturer
		Unit sale price of a new product
		Unit sale price of a remanufactured product
		Recycling rate of used products ()
Decision variables		Sales quantity of new products
		Sales quantity of remanufactured products
		The manufacturer’s ecodesign effort