Pallet recycling

Remanufactured pallets are built from recycled and new lumber together. A combo pallet comes out stronger and more consistent than a plain used pallet, and costs less than an all-new build. If your pile is mostly good lumber in poor frames, this is often where it ends up. See new and combo pallets.

• The count, and whether it changes week to week.
• Sizes, and how much of the pile looks sound.
• Any blue or red painted pallets. They go back to the pooler, not into the recycling stream.
• Whether the wood has stayed dry. Wet, moldy or burned wood goes straight to grinding if it goes anywhere.
• How the load leaves: dock door, alley or loading zone, curb.

1. Count ticketSend what you have. The request below is the ticket.
2. The readWe decide which path each part of the pile takes: resell, repair, dismantle or grind.
3. The planWe tell you what comes out as sellable and what is only a clear-out.
4. Your sideSay how the load leaves the site, and ask for a pickup if you want one.

Recycling is a family of outcomes. A pallet can be sorted and resold, repaired, taken apart for lumber, or ground. We read for the outcome that keeps the most value in the wood, and the reply says which one fits.

A recycler earns on yield, the share of a pile that comes out as something saleable. A pile of mostly sound frames yields many pallets. A pile of cracked frames with good boards yields boards, which the recycler uses to repair other pallets. A pile that is rotten yields mulch or biomass at best.

Knowing the yield shapes the call. A high-yield pile can be bought. A middle-yield pile is a clear-out with a small credit. A low-yield pile is a disposal job. We estimate from the count and your description, and tell you which.

1. InspectCheck a few pallets for sound boards and tight frames, and note how many fail.
2. PullNails are cut or pulled and the deckboards come off the frame.
3. SortBoards are sorted by length and condition.
4. ReuseGood boards go to repair or combo builds; the rest are ground.

It does not mean disposal in a landfill. It does not mean the pallets vanish. It means that the wood goes somewhere useful. A seller who wants a certificate or a note on the outcome should say so in the request.

If you can separate whole pallets from broken ones and stack each group apart, the pickup is faster and the outcome clearer. Even a rough split into two piles helps.

Are pallets recyclable?

Yes. Wood pallets can be repaired and reused many times, taken apart for lumber, or chipped when they are past saving.

Do you grind pallets?

Pallets that cannot be repaired or reused are ground, or routed to someone who grinds them. We say which when we read the load.