Crating.
The following is an excerpt from environmentalleader.com, a website dedicated to educating people about the impacts that humans have on the world.
“Shipping pallets, also known as skids, are the sorts of things most people don’t often think about — but once you do, you start seeing them everywhere, especially in places where goods are shipped, stored, and sold. (Trust me, if you have a typical commute through an urban/suburban landscape you’ll probably see dozens on your way home this evening.) Basically, they’re designed to protect loads in shipment and help make them more easily handled, stacked, and moved. The majority of these pallets (an estimated 95 percent) are made of wood.
The number of pallets out there is truly staggering. Nearly 2 billion wooden pallets are currently in circulation in the US alone, with a majority of them replaced each year. This consumes an estimated 50 percent of the country’s annual hardwood harvest. This in turn represents a very significant market for the lumber industry ($6 billion in annual sales if you can believe it), especially when one considers that roughly half of these pallets are intended to be used only once and then discarded. And since the pallets tend to be full of difficult-to-remove nails, a percentage of these single-use pallets often end up in landfills.”
And that’s just the pallets.
According to the EPA, less than a third of all wood material used in the shipping industry is recycled. The rest is landfilled. These two stories/statistics alone should persuade the logistics community to give up their pursuit of wood.
Interestingly enough, these two sources are not the end of the narrative. Not only are these stats repeated on environmental websites around the internet, but there is actually a physical, tangible solution to this issue.
Our CRATE™.
If you’re reading this blog post, you’ve probably witnessed all of our marketing and may have seen firsthand the incredible features that CRATE™ has to offer, so rather than repeat the numerous advantages of CRATE™, I challenge you to do something. Our solution is cheaper, safer, more reliable, and far, far better for the environment.
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