PalletCentral • January-February 2021
25
continues to be the main platform for NWPCA
members, we developed and maintain other websites,
and use social media to broaden our global reach, and
core messaging.
• Developed and maintain COVID Resource
Hub: palletcentral.com/covid19.
• Ongoing: GlobalWoodPackagingforum.org;
PalletDesignSystem.com; NaturesPackaging.org;
PalletFoundation.org.
• PalletDesignSystem.com added a French
translation.
• Fire Code Manual translation into Spanish.
• Redesigned PalletCentral® to update the look.
• PalletCentral® (print and digital) distribution
over 6,000; digital subscribers on the rise.
• Monthly economic impact manufacturing
surveys (May-August); high member engagement;
valuable intel shared from members on labor and
production.
Pallets to Pellets
A significant victory for our industry and the
environment came in March 2020 when the
Environmental Protection Agency's Administrator,
Andrew Wheeler, signed into regulation language
that opens the path for wood pallet residuals to be
sold as wood pellet fuel.
• NWPCA members and staff worked to change
existing federal regulation that previously prohibited
wood pallet residuals from being used in pellet fuel.
• The wooden pallet industry prides itself on its
environmental footprint and 95 percent recover/
recycle rate – the highest recycling rate among
competing packaging materials. The revised
regulation ensures a new market for biomass
residuals that helps the industry maintain and grow
its recycling rate.
Pallet Foundation
The Pallet Foundation
continues its strategically focused
plan to support the Pallet Design System™ R&D,
and conduct important environmental and safety
research. This work, and plans for 2021, represent
the most expansive and aggressive array of projects
in the history of the Foundation.
• Rebranded initiative with a new website and new
logo: PalletFoundation.org. New website highlights
the work of the foundation, projects, donors and
trustees and a more user-friendly experience.
END-OF-LIFE Recyclability
ECONOMIC
Growth in Transportation,
Manufacturing, and Jobs
EMISSIONS
Net
Carbon
Positive
Impact
ENVIRONMENT
Forest Sustainability
WOODEN PALLET
ENVIRONMENTAL
PRODUCT
DECLARATION
iStockphoto.com/artisteer
