Yellow Pallet's Benefits
Sustainable Solutions
Cost Effective Transport Pallets
Yellow Pallet sells technology to produce transport pallets and blocks made of residual agri-fibers.
Currently, these blocks are used in block pallets replacing 26 to 32 % of the wood volume of a block pallet. Thus, our Yellow-Pallet factories can offer a more cost-effective pallet than the conventional all wood pallets.
Price of sawn wood increases every year leading to higher prices of pallets every year. Over 85% of the production cost of pallets consist of the required wood. 95% of all pallets in the world are wooden pallets. Residual agri-fibers are a logical alternative for wood in countries with high numbers of residual fibres and where the demand for pallets is high.
Reduced carbon emissions
Wood for pallets in tropical area's is often imported from pine-producing countries like Chile, thousands of kilometers away. Alternatively it is harvested from the parts of the mountains sometimes destroying nature's wealth. Both methods require substantial fossil fuels to harvest and transport. Residual agri-fibres are available in abundance next to the designated factory locations.
Melina is a wood variety growing in the tropics that can be used for pallets. It serves only 40% of the pallet need for most countries. The remainder (mostly Pine) has to be imported. Melina grows 4 times less fast than banana fiber in terms of dry-fiber quantity per hectare and wooden forests require substantial more land than using residual agri-fibres.
Royal Haskoning DHV has developed a method calculating a benefit of at least 18% reduced carbon emission compared to wooden pallets in the situation of Costa Rica, with options to further reduce the emissions.
Increased local employment
During the construction of the factory and the creation of the harvesting system employment is created for many staff of local suppliers of metals, electronics, concrete, land workers, green house construction, electrical engineers, construction engineers and architects.
During the operations of the factory both factory staff and management is actively employed in higher skilled jobs.
The factory contributes to strengthening the local economy.
Reduced Deforestation
Yellow Pallet aims to meets the17 Sustainable Development Goals, but more strongly the following four (4) goals:
Goal 1: Poverty Reduction
Goal 8: Creation of decent work and economic growth
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate Action
Residual agri-fibres are available in abundance and most of them are going to waste. Such fibers can be used to mass-produce pallets and pallet-blocks.
A factory with 1,74 million pallets/year replaces 30% of the wood (blocks only). This safes 48.000 Melina trees per year equivalent to 640 ha per year.
The yield of dry fiber per hectare is 4 times higher than that of a wooden forest, thus reducing deforestation