By Rosella Campbell


Pallets, made from a number of different materials, are not the cheapest thing a business can buy. They are, however, a necessary item to hold tools, equipment and parts as well as ingredients for the products each business makes. They are also used to ship those finished products to the distributors. One way to save some money is to purchase the recycled pallets California recyclers offer for sale.

The new handy items have a fairly mundane life span. The most common ones were made from virgin wood fibers of the least expensive sort. They are mass produced so that, even though there are a great number of different dimensions, each one is the same size and height in that particular run.

Wooden platforms such as these are used for any number of things. Moving parts and chemicals around is one of them. They are designed of light weight yet sturdy stringers and slats. The slats are designed to allow the placement of materials with space for liquid to escape though the top. Stringers, of course, are for the strength and fork lift fork placement.

Outside was not a nice place for storage, however, these pallets were used for this. Often they were simply placed outside to store them. Most production facilities did not want to store this, inside, while they were empty. By being outside and subjected to the weather, heat, sun and, sometimes, rain, they broke down fairly quickly. As they became unusable, the recycling companies picked them up for processing.

Each type of pallet must be recycled in a different way. The act of recycling makes things that have lost their usefulness into things that are useful again. The first job of these recyclers is to identify what type is there and what needs to be done with each one. Many of these firms will take the entire item apart so that it can be rebuilt from the good original pieces and as many replacement parts as is needed.

In the event of a wooden pallet, the most popular, the broken slats are removed and replacement pieces are cut from other bad units. When the stringers are broken another piece of wood can be spliced onto it and this unit can be sold as a second. The best recycled pallets are the ones that have been completely broken down and rebuilt.

Plastic or polyvinyl pallets, such as those used primarily for chemical transporting, must be cleaned completely to remove any residue. An inspection of the unit will need to be made to ensure the integrity of entire pallet. Patches of polyvinyl can be placed over any holes as long as the platform itself is stable. This is the same way to handle a fiberglass pallet as well, using fiberglass patching material.

Recycling pallets for use is not only a good idea because they have already proven their worth, it is environmentally good. These solid platforms can come back and be used by many more people to do what they were originally designed for. They can be used and reused a long as there are pieces to repair them with.




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