Each year in the United States nearly 5 billion pounds of discarded carpet end up in landfills.

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Each year in the United States nearly 5 billion pounds of discarded carpet end up in landfills. In response to this situation, the carpet manufacturer in Problem 5-34 has decided to start a take-back program whereby obsolete carpet is reclaimed at the end of its useful life (about 7 years). The remanufactured carpet will then be recycled into the company's supply chain. The out-of-pocket (variable) cost of recycling is $1.00 per square yard of carpet, and the remanufactured carpet can be sold for $3.00 per square yard. If the recycling equipment costs $1 million and has no market value at the end of its eight-year life, how much carpet must be remanufactured annually to make this a profitable undertaking? The company's MARR is 15% per year
MARR
Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return (MARR), or hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project a manager or company is willing to accept before starting a project, given its risk and the opportunity cost of forgoing other...
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Engineering Economy

ISBN: 978-0132554909

15th edition

Authors: William G. Sullivan, Elin M. Wicks, C. Patrick Koelling

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