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Emissions trading schemes have been widely implemented by many countries to enforce the “cap and trade” concept for mitigating CO₂ emissions. Thus, the carbon price influences the manufacturing costs in all stages of production, recycling, and disposal. Consideration of the carbon price is especially important for the economic efficiency of the downstream manufacturing sectors, such as in plastic product manufacturing, to substantially reduce their costs through the design and management of networked supply chains, which results in purchasing feedstocks from different technological routes, as well as choosing plants, warehouses and various transportation modes with diverse CO₂ emission intensities. Supporting the decision-making in such situations requires the integration of life cycle analysis and networked supply chain management methodologies with an analysis of the carbon-market …