World Environment Day #BeatPlasticPollution

This year’s World Environment Day‘s subject is #BeatPlasticPollution with a clear main message; create a circular economy.

Today is a reminder that people’s actions on plastic pollution matters.

This is why we are committed to creating responsible supply chains by enabling businesses to easily build a circular economy into their everyday logistics.

These are a just a few ways that we are helping to #BeatPlasticPollution

It’s Our Responsibility: We are leading the way recycling plastic pallets and boxes in the UK; guaranteeing to take full responsibility for recycling the plastic pallets and boxes we supply

To date, we have recycled 1252 tonnes of plastic; this includes both products that we have supplied that have come to the end of their working life, as well as those manufactured by other suppliers.

This year, we have recycled over 230 tonnes of plastic so far, which already exceeds the 224 tonnes we recycled in 2022.

Reducing CO2 in Transportation: We ensure that all of our import transportation trucks are always loaded to the maximum possible weight and volume, to ensure they are running at their maximum efficiency and in both directions. In addition, our distribution team in the UK works closely with the pallet delivery network to greatly reduce the “part loaded” miles of trucks running to their final destination.

Our Partners: We have partnered with leading manufacturers in Europe who share our responsibility values, producing plastic pallets made from recycled plastic and ensuring that we are doing our part in creating responsible supply chains and a circular economy.

Our Products are made from Recycled Plastic: 93% of our plastic pallets, pallet boxes and small boxes are made from recycled plastic. In addition, using recycled plastic requires less energy. In fact, one tonne of recycled plastic saves around 2 tonnes of CO2 emissions. That equates to 5,774 kilowatt hours of energy, 16.3 barrels of oil, 98 million BTUs of energy and 22 cubic metres spared from going to landfill.

We know that it is time to accelerate action and transition to a circular economy.