Recyclers buy or collect cores from distribution centres, retailers and manufacturers. The cores are sorted into reusable grades, repaired, or dismantled for parts, and the rest goes to grinding.
Core supply drives recycled pallet prices alongside lumber. When fewer cores come back, recycled pallets get scarcer and dearer, and the share of lower grades in deliveries can rise.
See also
- Recycled pallet
- A used pallet that has been sorted, and often repaired, for resale.
- Pallet buyback
- A program in which a supplier collects your used pallets and credits you for reusable ones.
- Grade A (#1) pallet
- Trade name for the top grade of recycled 48×40 pallet: whole, with few or no repairs.
- Remanufactured pallet
- A pallet built from components salvaged from dismantled used pallets.