Product Disposition and Environmental Sustainability in Food and Beverages Companies: Success Determinants for Reverse Logistics System

Abstract

Reverse logistics goes beyond a customer returning a product at a returns collection centre to involving a more complex and challenging activity like product disposition which can affect the environment if not well taken care of. Therefore, the study examined whether the company's decision-making process towards ensuring environmental sustainability influences the selection of disposition strategy (ies). With food and beverages companies in Lagos State, Nigeria being the focus of the study, data were gathered from both primary and secondary sources while the paired samples t-test was employed for the purpose of data analysis.Findings thus revealed that to a large extent the need to protect the environment influences the kind of disposition option(s) selected by companies although other factors such as savings attached to such disposition options, regulatory factors as well as the non-financial considerations like protecting the company brand name could also influence their choices.