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

How Nevada compares

Across 614 establishments, warehousing and storage in Nevada employed 42,113 people in 2025. That is 2.21% of the national total and puts the state 15th of 50, with an average of 68.6 jobs per site.

The state sits in the Mountain states, a Census division. Its sites average 68.6 jobs against 81.5 across the country, and it holds 2.63% of the nation's warehousing establishments.

Where the warehousing jobs sit in Nevada

The counties with the most warehousing jobs, from the same BLS count: Clark (28,250), Washoe (9,662) and Storey (2,607).

• Clark County28,250 jobs, 67.1% of the Nevada total.
• Washoe County9,662 jobs, 22.9% of the Nevada total.
• Storey County2,607 jobs, 6.2% of the Nevada total.

What fills the yards in Nevada

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

• Warehousing and storage42,113 private jobs in 2025, 2.2% 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.
• Food manufacturing8,424 private jobs in 2025, 0.5% of the US total. 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. 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. In a pile from here, photograph the deck surface and any staining.

The rest of Nevada's pallet economy

Private jobs in 2025: food manufacturing 8,424, pharmaceutical manufacturing 1,439, motor vehicle assembly 339 and auto parts 744. Measured against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using industry here, at 2.1 times.

What the size of the state means

Nevada 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.

Big metros elsewhere in the Mountain states

Against Nevada's 42,113 warehousing jobs, the largest metros in the same division are Phoenix, Arizona (42,340, 1.01 times), Denver, Colorado (15,858, 0.38 times) and Salt Lake City, Utah (6,623, 0.16 times).

Next to Nevada

The table sets the warehousing counts of Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon and Utah against Nevada.

Metros we cover in Nevada

Las Vegas and Reno each have a page with ZIPs, counties and a corridor note.

• Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas28,250 warehousing jobs, 13th of 60 metros. ZIPs 89115, 89119, 89081.
• Reno12,269 warehousing jobs, 33rd of 60 metros. ZIPs 89506, 89431, 89434.

Marked pallets in Nevada

Nevada has no rule we can cite on stray proprietary pallets. Until an owner is ruled out by the marks, nothing in a Nevada load is ground.

Describing a Nevada load

Three facts first for Nevada: ZIP, count, footprint. Pallets from food manufacturing want the deck surface and any staining photographed; warehousing and storage pallets want the yard stacks, from the dock side photographed.