Industrial Pallet and Our Environment

Our Commitment to Our Environment

Once the repaired and recycled pallets have reached the end of their life cycle, we disassemble them and process the wood for multiple uses. The processed wood fiber from the old pallets is used to make furniture, fences, park benches, home building materials, kitchen cabinets, playground material, landscape mulch and many other products used every day. These value-added products keep millions of old pallets out of landfills and make a valuable contribution to our daily lives.

In our recycling process we automatically sort out the nails and sell them to steel recyclers. Also, the cardboard is baled and sold to paper reconstituters. In addition, we use wood waste to heat our facility by means of hot water transfer. As you can see, our commitment to the environment is very real.

Chipping Away at Falsehoods

Wood is good. It is the earth’s natural, energy efficient and renewable building material. A few wood facts:

We’re not running out of trees. One-third of the United States land base - 731 million acres – is covered by forests. About two-thirds of that 731 million acres is suitable for repeated planting and harvesting of timber. But only about half of the land suitable for growing timber is open to logging. Most of that harvestable acreage also is open to other uses such as camping, hiking, hunting, etc.

We’re growing more wood everyday. American landowners plant more than two billion trees every year. In addition, millions of trees seed naturally. The forest products industry, which comprises about 15% of forestland ownership, is responsible for 41% of replanted forest acreage. That works out to more than one billion trees a year, or about three million trees planted every day. This high rate of replanting accounts for the fact that every year, 27% more timber is grown than harvested.

Manufacturing wood products is energy efficient. Wood products make up to 47% of all industrial raw materials manufactured in the U.S., yet consumed only 4% of the energy needed to manufacture all industrial raw materials.

Good news for a healthy planet. For every ton of wood grown, a young forest produces 1.07 tons of oxygen and absorbs 1.47 tons of carbon dioxide.

Wood, it’s the right product for the environment.