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

Las Vegas in the numbers

The Las Vegas metro counts 28,250 private jobs in warehousing and storage for 2025. That is 1.49% of the US industry and 2.8% of private jobs in the metro, 13th of 60 here.

It spans 1 county: Clark. Being a one-county metro, its county and its metro counts are the same figure. Warehousing is 2.8% of private jobs there, and the metro holds 67.1% of Nevada's 42,113 warehousing jobs. 5 ZIP codes stand out for sites, led by 89115 (Las Vegas, 45).

The industries behind the loads

2 industries are named for the Las Vegas metro. The most concentrated is warehousing and storage, at 1.9 times the national share of employment.

• Warehousing and storage28,250 jobs in 2025, 1.49% 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.
• Grocery and related product wholesale5,074 jobs in 2025, 0.61% of the US total. Sort marked from unmarked first. Count the unmarked by style. This industry is where the ownership check matters most. In a pile from here, photograph every mark, logo and RFID bump.

Freight around Las Vegas

Las Vegas 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, Stockton.

Metros of a similar size

By warehousing jobs the nearest metros are Stockton (28,518), Memphis (27,742) and Los Angeles (27,225).

Elsewhere in Nevada

Reno (12,269 jobs, 0.43 times Las Vegas, busiest ZIP 89506) is the other metro we cover in Nevada, which has 42,113 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 Las Vegas 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 Las Vegas load looks like

The biggest named industry is warehousing and storage, with 28,250 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.