Economic sustainability under supply chain and eco-industrial park concurrent design

From a systemic point of view, the environmental efforts of single companies to achieve sustainable economic and environmental development are not enough because of the economic difficulty of reaching both zero-waste production state and high level of resource efficiency. This work focuses on payback period as a commitment keeping mechanism to ensure network stability at least until the recovery of the investment made for value creation from waste. A scenario analysis is proposed to investigate how the characteristics of each stakeholder within a network can affect the economic sustainability of the others.