On any given day of any given year, the USDA Forestry Service
guesstimates that 1.9 billion wooden pallets circulate freely in the United
States. Despite recent advances in
aluminum pallets and the like, wooden pallets still comprise a formidable
number of the pallets used to conduct daily commerce in America, and will
continue to do so as far as can be predicted. Given the gargantuan number of
wooden pallets in daily operation in the U.S.A., it makes good business sense that
those who use these pallets shouldn’t just drop them off at the landfill and
let them go to waste once they’ve served their purpose and can’t be patched or
repaired any further. It makes good, solid, cost-effective sense to recycle
your pallets – not only are you aiding the environment and all that good stuff,
but you end up saving your outfit a bundle of money to boot!
You don’t have to hug a tree to want to recycle a wooden
pallet – it only makes good economic sense. Repairing and retrofitting pallets
can prove to be cumulatively expensive after awhile. The cost of repairing a
wooden pallet only runs to somewhere around two bucks, but if you’re running an
extensive operation, those costs can pile up faster than you might expect. As
far as pallet recycling, while the pay-off per pallet is fairly minimal (it
depends which pallet recycler you choose to pursue business with), again, when
you add up all the pallets recycled in the course of a year, it bulks up into
quite a considerable sum.
Without the sustainability of wooden pallet recycling, a
huge and unnecessary number of trees would have to be cut down per year just to
maintain equilibrium. Thanks to advances in large-scale green technology (and
the proven fact that it’s a profitable enterprise), all that may be changing
for the better in times to come.
Stamar proudly uses and distributes recycled pallets as part
of its inventory. Come see what we can offer you today in our
vast inventory of all things pallet and pallet-unitizing!
