WHAT'S WRONG HERE?

 APPARENTLY 50% WILL BE USED ONLY ONE TIME.:   A few pallet facts from a 1998 USDA study.

• More than half a billion pallets are manufactured* each year in the U.S. alone
• over 50% of wood pallets are used one time and disposed.
• consuming an average of 5.8 cubic feet of landfill space each.
• Pallets discarded in the U.S. each year contain about as much lumber as is used in framing 300,000 average-sized homes. --
• American businesses send hundreds of millions of wooden pallets into landfills every year, spending a billion or so dollars in the process.
•  About 40% of all hardwood harvested in the U.S. is for pallets, about two-thirds of which are used only once before being tossed out. A fourth of all wood in landfills is from used pallets.

It's estimated that harvesting just the discarded wooden packaging in big U.S. cities would conserve about 300,000 acres of virgin timberland a year. The 88 million pallets discarded annually in the 49 largest urban areas contain about 1.5 billion board feet of usable lumber, or roughly three times the amount of virgin timber used to produce all the hardwood flooring sold in the U.S. every year.