What we pick up, and what we don't

We pick up

• Wood stringer pallets. The common 48x40 grocery-style pallet, with three long boards between the decks. The pallets most likely to be collected free.
• Wood block pallets. Nine blocks between the decks, enterable from all four sides. Common in export and in some retail supply chains.
• Skids. A deck on runners with no bottom boards.
• Plastic pallets. Rackable, stackable or nestable, as long as they're not marked as a pool's property.
• Wood crates. Shipping crates and crate panels. Measure one when you book: they vary.
• Broken pallets. Yes, as a paid haul-away. Where a recycler accepts them they're repaired, dismantled for boards or ground, rather than landfilled.
• Odd and custom sizes. Usually a paid haul-away, because few buyers reuse them.

We don't take

• Pooled pallets. Blue CHEP, red PECO, iGPS plastic, and any pallet painted or stamped as a company's property. They're rented, not owned, and go back to the pool. Set them aside; Blue Pallet Recycling explains how to return them. See pooled pallets explained.
• Chemically contaminated wood. Pallets soaked or stained by oil, solvents, pesticides or other chemicals, or that carried hazardous materials and leaked. Tell us if you're unsure.
• General junk. Furniture, appliances, construction debris and trash. Pallets mixed with debris can be collected as a paid haul-away, but only the pallet part goes to a recycler.

Before the truck comes

Separate pooled pallets, broken pallets and debris from the good stack. It can change a paid pickup into a free one. The site prep checklist has the rest.