Start a closed-loop program
Monthly volume and your sites. We will model the loop and the reporting.
Six stages, and your invoice sees all of them.
Most 'recycling programs' are a collection service with a nice name. This one is a supply agreement and a recovery agreement bolted together, which is what makes the arithmetic work.
Baseline
We count what you actually use and recover, over a month. Almost every customer is surprised by this number in one direction or the other.
Supply agreement
Written spec, part numbers, standing release schedule, price held for the term.
Recovery agreement
Paid pickup by grade, on the same runs as delivery wherever geography allows. Trailer swaps for high-volume sites.
Repair & re-grade
Your returned platforms go through the repair line and back into the pool — frequently back to you, which is the part people find satisfying.
Fiber for the remainder
What is genuinely finished is ground into mulch, bedding or biomass. Weighed, recorded, never landfilled.
Reporting
Quarterly statement: units supplied, units recovered, percentage returned to service, tonnage diverted, CO₂e avoided with the assumptions printed.
- A zero-landfill commitment naming your material specifically
- Measured diversion tonnage from our certified scale, not a modelled estimate
- Percentage of your returns that went back into service versus to fiber
- CO₂e avoided, with every assumption and factor stated
- Pallet Passport references for the platforms in your pool
- Audit support if your ESG reporting is externally verified
A single tidy carbon number.
Allocation choices — how you split the footprint of a mixed load, how you treat end-of-life mulch, what grid factor you use for the grinder — can swing a published figure by a third. We report the inputs and the method so your sustainability team can apply their own framework, rather than handing you a number that looks precise and is not.
The full carbon method, including where it is weakWhat gets reported, and when the pool is tight.
The documentation an auditor will accept, and the seasonal shape that decides when your recovered material is worth most.
| Document | When | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Certified weigh ticket | Every inbound and outbound movement | The evidentiary basis of any diversion claim |
| Count sheet by grade | Every purchase of your surplus | You get the sheet, not a summary |
| ISPM-15 batch record | Any heat-treated consignment | Turns a port query into an email |
| Pallet Passport record | Any remanufactured platform | Origin, repair history, treatment batch, running ledger |
| Quarterly diversion report | Programme customers | Measured tonnage for ESG reporting, not an industry average |
| Feedstock segregation attestation | Mulch and bedding buyers | Written statement of what the wood was |
| Certificate of insurance | On request | Named-insured endorsements for on-site crews |
| Grading criteria statement | On request | The written standard our graders work to |
Ask for any of these before an audit rather than during one. Assembling the pack takes us an afternoon and converts verbal questions into documents.
Relative demand pressure on the Mid-Atlantic recycled pool across a year, indexed to the October peak. Harvest, retail peak build and the construction push before winter overlap in roughly eight weeks. Hover or tap a month for what is happening in it.
| Criterion | Grade A / #1 | Grade B / #2 | Combo | Core / as-is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plugs permitted | No | Yes | In the B portion | N/A — unsorted |
| Companion boards | No | Yes | In the B portion | N/A |
| Stringer repair | No | Yes, plug or plate | In the B portion | N/A |
| Missing boards | None | None | None | Possible |
| Weathering | Light | Visible | Mixed | As received |
| Dimensional tolerance | ±⅜ in | ±½ in | ±½ in | Unchecked |
| Protruding fasteners | None | None | None | Possible |
| Rated load | Full | Full | Full | Unknown |
| Indicative price index | 100 | 62–70 | 75–85 | 30–45 |
| Re-stamped with passport | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Price index is relative, with A-grade set at 100, and moves with the market. Note that rated load is full on A, B and Combo alike — grade is a cosmetic and repair-history statement, not a strength one. Grades explained in full.