Plastic pallet recycling in Connecticut: what the yards hold and where it goes

How Connecticut compares

Counting 25,127 private jobs in warehousing and storage at 193 sites, Connecticut stands 24th among the states, 1.32% of the country. The mean site holds 130.2 workers.

The state sits in New England, a Census division. Its sites average 130.2 jobs against 81.5 across the country, and it holds 0.83% of the nation's warehousing establishments.

Counties in Connecticut

The BLS county figures for Connecticut are not broken out here, so the page works from the state total of 25,127 jobs. Give a ZIP and we place the load.

What fills the yards in Connecticut

2 further industries are named in the market data for Connecticut. Each retires pallets for its own reasons.

• Warehousing and storage25,127 private jobs in 2025, 1.3% of the US total. Check the strays first. Then separate the rackables, which are usually PP, from the nestables, which are usually HDPE. Describe each stack as its own line. In a pile from here, photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side.
• Food manufacturing9,671 private jobs in 2025, 0.5% of the US total. Sanitation audits remove cracked or stained pallets. A change of packaging line retires a colour-coded set. Pallets that held ingredients with strong odours or oils are culled early. Hygienic 48 x 40 and 40 x 48 pallets in HDPE or PP, often with closed decks and colour-coding by zone. Some are listed as food safe but not approved for direct food contact. In a pile from here, photograph the deck surface and any staining.

The rest of Connecticut's pallet economy

Private jobs in 2025: food manufacturing 9,671, pharmaceutical manufacturing 2,715 and auto parts 2,805. Measured against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using industry here, at 1.2 times.

What the size of the state means

Connecticut is a mid-table warehouse state. The jobs sit in a few places, and a pile outside them is the exception. Give the ZIP early, because distance to the nearest cluster decides how a load is placed.

Next to Connecticut

The table sets the warehousing counts of Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island against Connecticut.

Loads from the rest of Connecticut

Connecticut has no metro page yet. A load from anywhere in the state goes the same way: ZIP, count, what the pallets carried, and we say which lane suits it.

Marked pallets in Connecticut

No Connecticut-specific rule on stray proprietary pallets appears in our sources. Check every pallet for marks first; California's AB 1760 is the one rule we cite.

Describing a Connecticut load

For a Connecticut pickup: ZIP, count, footprint. From warehousing and storage, photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side. From food manufacturing, photograph the deck surface and any staining.