Pallet recycling is responsible for taking millions of wood pallets and over a billion board feet of lumber out of the waste stream each year, substantially reducing the burden on landfills.

Recycling is making pallet disposal easier and better for the environment. According to a study by the Department of Wood Science and Forest Products at Virginia Tech, the facts about wood pallet recycling are very encouraging.

• In a recent year, the pallet industry received an estimated 83.3 million pallets for repair and recycling.
  
  
• Of the nearly two billion board feet of lumber received for recycling in one year, 1.24 billion board feet were reused to make pallets.
  
  
• 62% of all pallets received for recycling were repaired and reused. Another 14.9% required no repair and were simply reused.
  
  
• An estimated 125.3 million board feet of lumber from used pallets and pallet parts were processed to create new products from the resulting wood fiber.

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