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Yes, Wooden Pallets are Environmentally Friendly

3/24/2022

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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.
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The industry-average wooden pallet is the only product in distribution packaging to achieve a UL certified Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

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Reduce Packaging Costs with Reverse Distribution

9/23/2021

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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.
Nelson Company Reverse Distribution
Save 10-50% with reverse distribution by reusing your packaging assets.

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EPA Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) for Pallets

4/11/2019

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​With Earth Day right around the corner, let's take a closer look at how pallets made from post-consumer material fit into the EPA's guidelines for making environmentally-conscious purchasing decisions. And, how things aren't always as they first appear.

If you're old enough to remember the 80s, you may recall that's when recycling became the next big thing. Here we are almost 40 years later, and although recycling continues to be an important part of the environmentally preferable hierarchy, we have learned a lot about what recycling can and cannot do.
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The first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970 in the US and is now celebrated every April 22 worldwide.

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Lumber Prices are Up. Saving on Pallets and Crates is Still Possible.

3/8/2018

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Here we go again. If you thought 2013 was a bad year for industrial lumber availability, 2018 may make five years ago look downright mild.
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Industrial lumber prices continue to be on the rise (image source: Random Lengths Publications Inc)

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What is the Equivalent Number of Trees Saved by Pallet Recycling?

11/10/2016

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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?
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By reusing wooden pallets many supply chains can reduce their demand for trees.

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Reverse Distribution Made Easy

6/27/2013

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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.
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