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This research aims to identify the reverse logistics practices that actually applied in the Egyptian business organizations in general, and business organizations within the industrial goods, services and automobiles sector in particular, and the extent of the application, besides measuring the degree of impact of the application of those practices on the environmental performance of the organizations under study. The analytical and descriptive approach has been used, and a field study was conducted using questionnaires as a key tool for collecting the primary data of the research. Moreover, a complete census method for determining number of observations from managers of the three administrative levels (top, middle, and direct) of the eleven organizations under study was used, where the number of collected observations were 289 observations. The results of the research showed that there are no statistically significant differences between the points of views of the sampling units regarding the application of reverse logistics practices in the organizations under study, as managers in the top, middle and direct management pointed out that the practices are in the final planning phase and about to be applied. The results of the research also showed that the reverse logistics practices have a significant impact on the environmental performance of the organizations under study.
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