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In the US alone, it's estimated that 1.9 billion pallets are hard at work on the daily. Essential to supply chains, these unassuming platforms are busy transporting everything from your morning coffee to the high-tech components helping to lift rockets into space. Roughly 90% of US pallets are made from wood. That's according to the latest Annual Pallet Report published by Modern Materials Handling. With so many wooden pallets in circulation, you may be asking if wooden pallets are really a sustainable choice. Yes, yes they are.  The industry-average wooden pallet is the only product in distribution packaging to achieve a UL certified Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) This page has been updated and permanently moved to:
https://www.nelsoncompany.com/blog-post-yes-wooden-pallets-are-environmentally-friendly.cfm When it comes to moving product, manufacturers are in a pickle. Pallets are in short supply. Prices are up. Packaging of every kind is being impacted by current market conditions. Reverse distribution can help by keeping you in a consistent supply of all packaging assets. Find out if it will work for you.  Save 10-50% with reverse distribution by reusing your packaging assets. This page has been updated and permanently moved to:
https://www.nelsoncompany.com/blog-post-reduce-packaging-costs-with-reverse-distribution.cfm Trees are a renewable natural resource. Rather than produce all pallets from new lumber, the wooden pallet industry recycles hundreds of millions of pallets every year! The question is just how many trees are theoretically saved each year by recycling these pallets?  By reusing wooden pallets many supply chains can reduce their demand for trees. Is reverse distribution right for your company? In its most simple terms, reverse distribution is the recovery and reuse of packaging. You’ve heard it all before. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. But there’s got to be more to it, right? Exactly. It’s a full-service systematic process.  This page has been updated and permanently moved to:
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