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- 53% of pallet users report that damage to their products is due to improper transportation, mishandling and
forklift-related damage according to a December 1999 Modern Materials Handling pallet user survey.
- Pallets, containers and all other types of wood packaging utilize only 14% of all wood fiber harvested
each year in the U.S. (Source: U.S. Forest Service). The wood fiber used in pallets is of lower quality
that wouldn't otherwise have uses (due to cosmetic concerns usually).
- A recent survey of pallet users found that 94% recycle their pallets and 65% reuse them within their own
company (Source: NWPCA's Target Industries Survey).
- Only 1.4% of all municipal wood waste (by weight) consists of pallets.
- Over 200 million used pallets were received for recycling by the pallet industry in 2000. This represents a
more than 100% increase from the number of used pallets received for recycling in 1993.
- Wood is the best insulator of all building materials, as it contains millions of tiny air cells trapped
within its cellular structure that provides a barrier against heat and cold.
- An inch of wood is 15 times as efficient an insulator as concrete; 400 times as efficient as steel and
1,770 times as efficient as aluminum.
- Comparing the total energy costs to acquire the raw material, transport, process and the use of a product
throughout its lifetime, wood far outshines its competitors.
- Wooden pallets comprise 93% of the entire world pallet market because they are rigid, durable, functional, safe and cost effective.
- Wood pallets are readily available in larger quantities than competing materials.
- Wood pallets and containers can be customized to accommodate specialized loads.
- Maintaining wood pallets' cleanliness and usability is simple and inexpensive.
- When a young forest is growing, it produces one ton of oxygen and absorbs 1.4 tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of wood.
- Trees actually sequester carbon into the wood, meaning it will not be released into the atmosphere.
- Carbon emissions associated with manufacturing wood products are less than the carbon stored within the wood during its growth cycle.
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