5 Ways Pallet Repair Reduces Your Carbon Footprint

1. Reducing Raw Material Consumption

Every new wooden pallet requires approximately 15-20 kg of timber. When you repair a pallet instead of replacing it, you typically use only 2-3 kg of replacement material - an 85% reduction in raw material consumption.

This means fewer trees harvested, less energy used in logging and processing, and reduced transportation of raw materials to manufacturing facilities.

2. Cutting Manufacturing Emissions

Manufacturing a new EUR pallet generates approximately 20-25 kg of CO2 equivalent emissions. This includes:

• Energy for sawmill operations
• Kiln drying of timber
• Assembly line operations
• Quality control and treatment processes

Pallet repair, by contrast, generates only 3-5 kg of CO2 - representing an 80% reduction in manufacturing-related emissions.

3. Minimizing Transportation Impact

New pallets often travel significant distances from forest to sawmill to manufacturer to distributor to end user. Each step adds to the carbon footprint.

With a pallet repair service like ours, the journey is shorter:

4. Extending Product Lifecycle

A well-maintained EUR pallet can be repaired and reused 15-20 times over its lifetime. Each repair cycle extends the useful life by 3-5 years, maximizing the value extracted from the original resources.

This circular approach means fewer pallets needed overall, reducing the total environmental burden of your logistics operations.

5. Diverting Waste from Landfill

When pallets are discarded instead of repaired, they often end up in landfill where they decompose and release methane - a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than CO2.

Our approach ensures that:

• 35% of collected pallets are repaired for reuse
• 50% are recycled into wood chips or biomass fuel
• 10% become animal bedding or mulch
• 0% goes to landfill

This zero-waste approach maximizes the environmental value of every pallet.