Plastic pallet recycling in Miami: ZIPs, industries and the loads they leave behind

Miami in the numbers

The Miami metro counts 22,104 private jobs in warehousing and storage for 2025. That is 1.16% of the US industry and 0.9% of private jobs in the metro, 17th of 60 here.

It spans 3 counties: Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. Warehousing is 0.9% of private jobs there, and the metro holds 21.0% of Florida's 105,401 warehousing jobs. 5 ZIP codes stand out for sites, led by 33178 (Miami, 39).

County by county

The largest warehousing counties in the metro: Miami-Dade (13,042), Broward (5,677) and Palm Beach (3,385).

• Miami-Dade County13,042 jobs, 59.0% of the metro's disclosed total.
• Broward County5,677 jobs, 25.7% of the metro's disclosed total.
• Palm Beach County3,385 jobs, 15.3% of the metro's disclosed total.

The industries behind the loads

2 industries are named for the Miami metro. The most concentrated is grocery and related product wholesale, at 1.7 times the national share of employment.

• Grocery and related product wholesale27,032 jobs in 2025, 3.26% of the US total. 48 x 40 pallets of many styles and marks, nestables for returns and the rented pool pallets that arrive with suppliers’ freight. In a pile from here, photograph every mark, logo and RFID bump.
• Warehousing and storage22,104 jobs in 2025, 1.16% of the US total. General-purpose 48 x 40 pallets, nestables for empty storage and rackables on beams. Warehouses hold the widest mix of styles of any industry here, so mixed resin and mixed colour piles are normal. In a pile from here, photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side.

On the freight lanes: I-95 and I-75

Miami sits on I-95, which runs from I-95 is the main north-south Interstate on the East Coast, running from Miami, Florida, to the Houlton-Woodstock border crossing between Maine and New Brunswick. The metros we track on it hold 127,866 private warehousing jobs, 6.7% of the US total (disclosed counties only). Also on it: Savannah (6,384), Northern New Jersey (39,367), Philadelphia (38,250), Jacksonville (15,384) and Baltimore (6,377).

Miami sits on I-75, which runs from I-75 is 1,786 miles long, from the Hialeah-Miami Lakes border in Florida to Sault Ste. The metros we track on it hold 136,133 private warehousing jobs, 7.2% of the US total (disclosed counties only). Also on it: Atlanta (49,050), Knoxville (1,751), Cincinnati (19,940), Tampa (13,205) and Detroit (30,083).

Metros of a similar size

By warehousing jobs the nearest metros are Seattle (23,062), Kansas City (20,676) and Cincinnati (19,940).

Elsewhere in Florida

Orlando (13,928 jobs, 0.63 times Miami, busiest ZIP 32824), Jacksonville (15,384 jobs, 0.70 times Miami, busiest ZIP 32218) and Tampa (13,205 jobs, 0.60 times Miami, busiest ZIP 33619) are the other metros we cover in Florida, which has 105,401 warehousing jobs in all.

What the size of the market means

A market this size is made of many separate sites, so a pile in Miami is rarely the only one nearby. Large distribution clusters bring pooled pallets and mixed footprints into the same trailer, which is why the marks and the sizes get listed before anything else.

What a Miami load looks like

Expect grocery and related product wholesale first: 27,032 jobs in 2025. Photograph every mark, logo and RFID bump and, for warehousing and storage, the yard stacks, from the dock side. Say the ZIP, the count and the footprint. Any Miami pallet with a name, tag or odd colour waits for an owner check.