Environmental cost of wooden pallets

Both wooden and plastic pallets can be found everywhere. Relevant departments surveyed, the Australian market has 140 million pallets, in this digital clock, most of them are made of wooden.

But, there may be problems with wood pallets, including some environmental problems. Although wood may look greener, it is not the case-at least not now, as recyclable plastics for pallets continue to evolve. In addition, plastic pallets are lighter in weight, more hygienic and cheaper.

Here is a brief introduction to some of the environmental problems that may be caused by wooden pallets.

Cost on our forests

Probably the most obvious drawback of producing wooden pallets is the cost of forests.. Range International estimates that 40 percent of the world's timber supply is used for pallets. Although the types of trees used for pallets are not the most valuable in the industry, and pallets are therefore not the only reason that logging companies thrive, the production of wooden pallets still poses a risk to forest preservation. Any type of product that requires wood as its base material, like paper or wooden pallets, can be detrimental to forests worldwide in the long run.

Wooden pallets pose a risk to forest preservation.

Health issues Wood is a porous material that can be problematic when it is aged or invaded by mildew or insects. This means that before pallets can be used or reused, they must be processed to prevent these results, or to get rid of problems that have begun to fester in wood. 

In general, wooden pallets must be discarded because they are damaged and therefore unsuitable for transporting products and materials.

Recovery Unfortunately, wood is more difficult to recycle than plastic, mainly because of the health problems mentioned above and the fact that wood trays usually integrate some kind of metal into them. Although wood pallets are being recycled more and more, they are still not as recyclable as plastic pallets, according to estimates by the US Forest Service. Plastic pallets can also be made from materials that change their use, which is another big advantage.

By the above we come to the disadvantage of the traditional wooden pallet

1. Raw materials need to be cut down forests and destroy forest environments

2. Easy aging, corrosion by mold insects

3. Recovery is difficult

molded pallet, we make the following analysis

Molded presswood pallet: the plant fiber and environmental protection synthetic resin mix, after high temperature and high pressure molding molded pallet products.The surface of the pallet is smooth and flat, suitable for transportation of various goods. Recycling wood and plastic waste can also be used as raw materials.

Traditional wood pallet: to log as raw material, through drying stereotypes treatment, and then cutting, planing, decapitation, pumping edge, sanding and other finishing processing to form section plate, and then the section plate bound into semi-finished tray, the final finishing, Non-slip treatment and sealing wax treatment.

Easy to export 

Molded presswood pallet in line with Aqsiq “Outbound cargo wood Packaging inspection treatment measures” and the International Plant Protection Convention Plant Quarantine International Standards (ISPM15), exemption from fumigation, can be directly exported.

Space saving

Molded presswood pallet set ratio, the total height of 50 pallets is less than 2 meters; the tray bottom design complies with international standards and is suitable for international manual and automatic forklift standardization operations. The molded pallet is 60% lighter than the traditional wooden pallet, while the load-bearing capacity is equivalent.

A piece of design

Molded pallet is a molding, not easy to bend.

Safe and reliable

The molded presswood pallet is designed with rounded corners and is equipped with reinforcing ribs, which greatly improves the capacity of loading.

Recyclable

Waste pallet recycling, as raw material to make a new molded pallet.

Excellent dynamic and static load performance
The molded presswood pallet dynamic load can reach 2 tons, static load more than 11 tons.

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