American Reverse Logistics Executive Council (RLEC) in its research publications provides
a definition of green logistics, also known as eco-logistics, as a process of delving into how
logistics impacts the ecosystem. RLEC also compares green logistics and reverse logistics. It
indicates that reserve logistics is the process of products and packaging materials moving
from consumers to manufacturers. It aims to re-acquire product values or properly dispose of
products. Therefore, reverse logistics is an element of green logistics. Wu and Dunn (1995,
pp. 20–38) suggested that green logistics is a combination of the greening of forward
logistics, i.e. material acquisition, production, packaging, transportation, storage, and final
delivery to end-users, and the reverse logistics that includes waste recovery and disposal.