Hybrid modeling applied for a developing plastic waste management system

Lucas Pereira was born in Bahia, Brazil in 1997. He holds a degree in Production Engineering from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (2022). He held CNPq scholarships in two research projects: “Brazilian Management of Municipal Solid Waste in the Circular Economy – approach of Success Cases in the Recovery of Materials and Energy Production Through Mathematical Modelling with Structural Equations” and Proposal for improvement of the Reverse Logistics System of plastics with structural equations and Life Cycle Analysis. Lucas is a master’s student in the Program in Industrial Engineering at the Universidade Federal da Bahia with the project “Proposal to improve Plastic Waste Management in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador: an approach with multivariable modelling”. He was an author of papers for Q1 and Q2 journals, IJCIEOM 2023, IJCIEOM 2022, and speaks: advanced English, advanced Spanish, upper-intermediate French (in progress), and intermediate German.

Professor Dr Breno Nunes holds a PhD in Management from Aston University and both a master’s degree (2005) and a bachelor’s degree (2002) in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (2002). He is a reader in Sustainable Operations Management at Aston Business School and the current President of IAMOT – the International Association for Management of Technology. His teaching, research and consulting activities include sustainability strategies, green technology and operations strategy, green innovation management, systems thinking, and decision-making. He publishes in high-impact journals and works closely with organizations, both large and small. Besides teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students at Aston, he has also taught Operations Strategy modules in the prestigious Warwick Business School Executive MBA at The Shard in London. His research interests include environmental management and strategy, technology and production management and strategy, among other topics related to sustainability (transportation, energy, sustainable economic development etc.).

Professor Dr Francisco Gaudêncio Mendonça Freires was born in Fortaleza (state of Ceará – Brazil) in 1974. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará (1996), a Master’s degree in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2000), and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (2007). He has experience in Production Engineering with an emphasis on Business Logistics and Operations Management, working mainly on the following topics: Supply Chain Management, reverse logistics, sustainable SCM, and cost management. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) Polytechnic School. He also works in the Graduate Program in Industrial Engineering (PEI) at UFBA, currently researching renewable energy alternatives from the perspective of supply chain management, and speaks: fluent English, upper-intermediate German, advanced Spanish, and upper-intermediate French.