CHEP, the world’s leading provider of pallet and container pooling solutions, announced that an independent study has confirmed CHEP’s pallet system in Europe has the lightest impact on the environment when compared with alternative pallet systems, namely white-wood returnable pallets and white-wood disposable pallets.
CHEP Global Director of Sustainability, Dr Juan José Freijo, said: “This is a clear competitive advantage and reinforces our view that CHEP is the market leader in sustainability in our sector.
“We completed a comprehensive life-cycle assessment study for CHEP Europe, which covered CHEP pallet products and services. The assessment was performed by Brussels-based Intertek-RDC Environment, a leading environmental consultancy organisation and has been independently peer reviewed and for ISO 14044 certification.”
The life-cycle assessment study focused on CHEP Europe’s three key products: the Euro Pallet (1200x800mm), UK Pallet (1000x1200mm) and Half Pallet (600x800mm). Intertek-RDC evaluated the total environmental impact of the pallets over their entire life-cycle, from harvesting trees to end-of-life recycling.
The study results demonstrated that the CHEP pooling solution generates the lowest environmental impact among the analysed wooden pallet systems. CHEP’s intrinsic business benefits are key in achieving this environmental performance. These include use of certified wood, higher transport efficiency, lower losses and recycling at the end-of-life.
Dr. Freijo said: “We found that emissions and resource consumption when using CHEP’s pallet-pooling system are less than half than when using whitewood returnable pallets, and the waste generated is about 18 times lower than white-wood disposable pallets.”
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