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Greener Earth Pallet
Inca Pallets Leave a “Greener” Planet
Urgent Environmental Concern:
Source
Reduction & Recycling
In the past, natural resources were taken for granted. Today, however,
these resources are rapidly being depleted and our disposable society
lifestyle is quickly catching up with us. Landfills are becoming full
and places to dispose of waste products are diminishing. The need
for source reduction and recycling is more than ever being
realized as an urgent concern. Companies must produce and use environmentally
safe and renewable products that are manufactured using minimal natural
resources and energy. Every aspect of the manufacturing process must
be considered. Pallets, once part of this disposal problem, can now
provide solutions.
Advantages of Wood:
The Natural Material
Wood is an environmentally friendly material by nature, being produced
mainly from sun energy and not valuable fossil fuels as with other
materials. Compared to wood, the energy required to produce
other materials is far greater. For example, it takes 6 times
more energy to produce plastic, 23 times more energy to produce steel
and 126 times more energy to produce aluminum. Trees filter out the
carbon dioxide pollutants that man and machine expel, and by giving
oxygen back to us, trees keep the ecosystem in balance and help prevent
the global warming trend our planet is experiencing.
The Inca Advantage:
Complete Use of Timber
The Inca Pallet is both source reducing and recyclable with
its use of natural resources.
Inca Presswood Pallets are produced from low grade timber stands that
are uneconomical for other purposes. For example, the “push over” or
debris of strip mining operations (usually pushed over and buried),
farm land and urban clearing (where the timber is either landfilled
or used for mulch) and forest tree thinning are often used. In fact,
one of the best forest tree services Inca production provides is the
clearing of timber for environmental tree thinning. This procedure
removes underdeveloped trees from crowded wood plantations providing
more growing room for the better trees to mature to full size. This
is important when a forest gets old and over-crowded, because trees
barely grow while competing for space. Trees actually begin to use
oxygen rather than yield it, causing more trees to decay rather than
grow. Thus, this management of the forest is necessary to have more
efficient and more productive timber stands.
Source Reduction
Inca Uses the Whole Tree – No Waste!
The wood chip ingredients for Inca Presswood Pallets are directly
produced in the woods. A machine is used to swallow a complete tree,
including the trunk, bark, leaves and branches as they are fed into
the inlet of the machine for processing. Wood chips are discharged
and are blown directly into a semi-trailer for immediate shipment to
the Inca Pallet factory. No debris! No waste! No pollution!
At the Inca facility, the wood chips are further processed, and astonishingly, 93%
of the biomass of the tree is used in the Inca Pallet product. The
unused 7% represents fine dust from the leaves and bark and is used
to provide energy in the factory’s boiler system. Again, nearly
complete recovery and utilization of material occurs, without fouling
our environment.
Hardwood Tree Biomass Usage
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Wood Pallets |
Inca Pallets |
Resource Utilization Differential |
% of Tree Used |
28 |
93 |
65 |
Recyclable – Inca Pallet Process:
Utilizing Wood Waste
Today, Inca Pallets are being made more and more from uncontaminated,
selected industrial wood waste, and recycled, spent Inca Pallets. Inca
Presswood Pallets, Ltd., is accepting selected wood waste as raw material
for its pallet product. Otherwise, this wood waste would go into landfills
or be incinerated.
Inca Pallet customers are returning spent Incas when they purchase
new stock. The spent Inca Pallets are a ground-up portion of the recycled
pallet product.
Re-Use & Recycling:
Once is Not Enough
Several methods of re-use of the “spent” presswood pallet
have been implemented that are mutually beneficial to industry and
to the environment. Examples of the re-use for ground Inca Pallets
include:
- Livestock bedding
- Absorbent floor compound
- Top soil additive
- Compost material
- Boiler fuel feed stock
- Ingredient for new Inca Pallets
Instead of dumping pallets into landfills, they are constructively
used in new products.
Inca Pallets Require Less of the Environment:
Provide More For You
In pursuit of natural resource source reduction and dedication
to environmental responsibility, continued research and development
efforts have produced new manufacturing methods. These methods allow
us to offer the pallet user a recycled pallet product that uses reduced
new timber resource and less energy to produce. As a service to our
customers who are making ethical environmental decisions, we have instituted
programs that encourage exchanging “old Incas for new” when
shipments of new Incas are received.
Inca Presswood Pallets require less of our environment; less timber,
less energy, less waste, therefore, with more and healthier trees,
Incas leave our planet a little bit “greener”. That’s
why we say,
“Incas are the ‘Greener’ Pallet”
Manufactured according to the werzalit
process.
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