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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Decision Sciences Volume 2012, Article ID 386598, 21 pages doi:10.1155/2012/386598 Research Article An Optimal Returned Policy for a Reverse Logistics Inventory Model with Backorders S. R. Singh and Neha Saxena Department of Mathematics, D.N. College, Meerut 250001, India Correspondence should be addressed to Neha Saxena, nancineha.saxena@ Received 30 April 2012; Revised 12 September 2012; Accepted 25 September 2012 Academic Editor: Omer Benli Copyright q 2012 S. R. Singh and N. Saxena. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Environmental responsibility plays a significant role in the firm’s agendas nowadays. In this paper, we address the environmental operations of reverse logistics. Here we developed an integrated supply chain model with coordinated production and remanufacturing due to time-dependent rates. To study the problem we consider the demand to be satisfied with newly manufactured produced and the remanufactured products, so there is no difference between manufactured and remanufactured items. The shortages are allowed and excess demand is backlogged as well. The returned items are collected from the end user to be remanufactured. Optimal expression is obtained for the acceptable returned quantity, maximum inventory level, production and remanufacturing scheduling period, and the total average cost. Illustrative examples, which explain the application of the theoretical results as well as their numerical verifications, are given. The sensitivity of these