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

Orlando in the numbers

Orlando had 13,928 private warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 0.73% of the national total and 30th of the 60 metros we cover. Only counties with disclosed figures are counted, so the true number is a little higher.

It spans 4 counties: Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole. Warehousing is 1.1% of private jobs there, and the metro holds 13.2% of Florida's 105,401 warehousing jobs. 5 ZIP codes stand out for sites, led by 32824 (Orlando, 28).

County by county

The largest warehousing counties in the metro: Orange (12,412), Lake (1,463) and Seminole (53).

• Orange County12,412 jobs, 89.1% of the metro's disclosed total.
• Lake County1,463 jobs, 10.5% of the metro's disclosed total.
• Seminole County53 jobs, 0.4% of the metro's disclosed total.

The industries behind the loads

2 industries are named for the Orlando metro. The most concentrated is warehousing and storage, at 0.8 times the national share of employment.

• Warehousing and storage13,928 jobs in 2025, 0.73% 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.
• Grocery and related product wholesale8,723 jobs in 2025, 1.05% 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.

Freight around Orlando

Orlando is not on one of the twelve corridors we read, so we place a load here by ZIP and by the distance to the nearest metro we cover, Cleveland.

Metros of a similar size

By warehousing jobs the nearest metros are Cleveland (13,652), Louisville/Jefferson County (14,533) and Tampa (13,205).

Elsewhere in Florida

Miami (22,104 jobs, 1.59 times Orlando, busiest ZIP 33178), Jacksonville (15,384 jobs, 1.10 times Orlando, busiest ZIP 32218) and Tampa (13,205 jobs, 0.95 times Orlando, 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 mid-sized warehouse market. Loads around Orlando tend to come from a handful of big sites and a long tail of small ones, and a full trailer from one site is a different job from three part-loads from three. Say which yours is.

What a Orlando load looks like

The biggest named industry is warehousing and storage, with 13,928 jobs. Photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side and, for grocery and related product wholesale, every mark, logo and RFID bump. Say the ZIP, the count and the footprint. Marked pallets get the ownership check first.