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

How New Hampshire compares

Counting 3,283 private jobs in warehousing and storage at 96 sites, New Hampshire stands 42nd among the states, 0.17% of the country. The mean site holds 34.2 workers.

The state sits in New England, a Census division. Its sites average 34.2 jobs against 81.5 across the country, and it holds 0.41% of the nation's warehousing establishments.

Where the warehousing jobs sit in New Hampshire

The counties with the most warehousing jobs, from the same BLS count: Rockingham (1,838), Merrimack (497) and Strafford (316).

• Rockingham County1,838 jobs, 56.0% of the New Hampshire total.
• Merrimack County497 jobs, 15.1% of the New Hampshire total.
• Strafford County316 jobs, 9.6% of the New Hampshire total.

What fills the yards in New Hampshire

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

• Plastics product manufacturing4,093 private jobs in 2025, 0.7% of the US total. Retired stock after a product line ends. Some processors regrind their own scrap, and a pallet pile is one more feedstock. In a pile from here, photograph moulded codes and maker marks.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing2,222 private jobs in 2025, 0.6% of the US total. Hygienic 48 x 40 and 43 x 43 pallets, sometimes PP for sterilisation, with documents on resin and colour. In a pile from here, photograph the deck surface and any batch plates.

The rest of New Hampshire's pallet economy

Private jobs in 2025: food manufacturing 2,774, pharmaceutical manufacturing 2,222 and auto parts 910. Measured against the national share of employment, plastics product manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using industry here, at 1.6 times.

What the size of the state means

New Hampshire is among the smaller warehouse states, so a pile here may be far from the next one. Say whether the load can be held, whether the pallets are reachable by truck, and how many there are.

Next to New Hampshire

The table sets the warehousing counts of Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont against New Hampshire.

Loads from the rest of New Hampshire

New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire

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

Describing a New Hampshire load

Three facts first for New Hampshire: ZIP, count, footprint. Pallets from pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing want the deck surface and any batch plates photographed; plastics product manufacturing pallets want moulded codes and maker marks photographed.