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Plastic pallet recyclers for broken, retired and surplus loads

Plastic pallets sorted, ground and made into pallets again.

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Five answers and a ZIP. We say what we think happens next.

How full is the trailer?
What resin are the pallets?
Sound or broken?
Photos of the stack and the trailer help. Email them to info@plasticpalletrecyclers.com after you send.
Load request

Request received

We read every request ourselves. We will come back with what we think happens to the load, and what we still need to see.

Nothing here is an offer or an acceptance. A load is accepted only after the pallets have been seen.
RetiredGroundSortedRemoulded
A pallet is shredded and ground to flake, sorted by resin and colour, and moulded into a pallet again.

Pallet to flake to pallet

A pallet finishes its trips

Moulded from HDPE or PP, built to be moved thousands of times. Then a runner cracks, a deck splits or the owner changes the footprint.

It breaks into flake

Shredded, then ground. The cracked ones and the retired ones both end up as small flakes, colour for colour.

The flake is sorted

By resin and by colour, so black stays with black and the blue pile does not spoil the orange one.

And it comes back

Regrind goes to moulders who make pallets again. Ask what blend you are buying.

Tell us the pile

Five answers. The sorter says which bin the load would go to and what to photograph. It gives no price and no promise.

How full is the trailer?
What resin are the pallets?
What shape are they in?
What colours are in the load?
Any other company’s name or an RFID tag?
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      What happens to each kind of load

      Four bins. The load goes to the one that fits first, and moves if the pallets say otherwise.

      Broken pallets

      Cracked, burnt or crushed, and no one else's name on them. These go to regrind, sorted by resin and colour first.

      Broken pallets

      Retired footprints

      Sound pallets of a size the owner no longer uses. Reuse and repair come before regrind.

      Retired stock

      Mixed colour

      A load of every colour is still regrind, but it makes a different regrind. The colour mix goes on the form.

      Scrap pallets
      NAME?

      Pool-marked

      A name, a logo or an RFID tag means the pallet may not be the holder's to send. The ownership check comes first.

      Pool-marked guide

      The ownership check

      Before anything is ground, ask whose it is. Pooled pallets belong to the pool, not to whoever holds them.

      • A company name or logo moulded into the deckCHEP, iGPS, PECO and others mould their names in. If you see one and are not the pool's customer, the pallet is not yours to scrap.
      • An RFID tag or a barcode labelA tag usually means a pool or a brand tracks it. Photograph it up close.
      • A colour you did not buySome pools use a signature colour. A blue or red pallet in a mixed lot is worth a second look.
      • A different name on the delivery paperThe paper that came with the pallets often names the owner.

      Read the pool-marked guide

      Recycled-content pallets

      If you want pallets made from recycled plastic, the label matters less than the paperwork.

      A recycled-content pallet is moulded partly or wholly from post-industrial or post-consumer resin. Ask for the percentage, whether it is post-industrial or post-consumer, the size, the style and the rating, static, dynamic and racking. A number without a source is a slogan.

      Cabka and Renewi say their Eco CP3 pallet is made from 100 percent recycled polyethylene. Rehrig quotes up to 90 percent recycled content in a black standard-duty nestable. Colour pallets carry less. Food contact is a separate question again.

      Ask for recycled palletsFood contact

      Industries with the pile

      Each industry retires its pallets for its own reasons. The jobs below are the BLS 2025 count of private employees, not pallets.

      IndustryUS jobs, 2025Establishments
      Warehousing and storage1,901,97623,345
      Refrigerated warehousing73,1361,811
      Food manufacturing1,775,00842,763
      Beverage manufacturing316,93816,316
      Motor vehicle parts manufacturing521,2126,414
      Chemical manufacturing892,42625,801
      Plastics product manufacturing575,00612,344
      Grocery and related product wholesale829,36449,933

      All thirteen industries

      Where loads come from

      Every state has a page. California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas, outlined, carry the most freight and were built first.

      Sixty metro pages sit under their states. All areas · Recycling near me

      Questions people ask

      Can broken plastic pallets be recycled?

      Yes. Cracked, crushed and burnt HDPE and PP pallets are normal feedstock. We sort them by resin and colour before they are ground.

      What do you accept?

      We cannot say before we have seen the pallets. Resin, condition, contamination and who owns the pallets decide. Send the load description and photos.

      What does a recycler need to see?

      The count, the size, the resin if you know it, whether they are broken or sound, the colours, any marks that name another owner, and the ZIP.

      Can I send pallets with CHEP or iGPS marks?

      Not without the owner’s say. Marked pallets go to the ownership check first.

      More questions · Can plastic pallets be recycled? · About us

      Got a pile?

      Describe it in the form at the top of this page, or use the longer request page with the sorter and a photo list. Email photos to info@plasticpalletrecyclers.com.

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      Sources, reviewed Nov 12, 2026: Resource Recycling, Greystone Logistics; Material District, Eco CP3 pallet; Association of Plastic Recyclers.

      Cracked, retired or mixed?

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