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

How Rhode Island compares

Counting 5,152 private jobs in warehousing and storage at 40 sites, Rhode Island stands 39th among the states, 0.27% of the country. The mean site holds 128.8 workers.

The state sits in New England, a Census division. Its sites average 128.8 jobs against 81.5 across the country, and it holds 0.17% of the nation's warehousing establishments.

Counties in Rhode Island

The BLS county figures for Rhode Island are not broken out here, so the page works from the state total of 5,152 jobs. Give a ZIP and we place the load.

What fills the yards in Rhode Island

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

• Warehousing and storage5,152 private jobs in 2025, 0.3% of the US total. Forklift tines split decks and chip corners. A racking change retires one style at once. Strays arrive on inbound trailers from shippers who use pooled pallets, and sit in the yard until someone asks whose they are. In a pile from here, photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side.
• Food manufacturing3,769 private jobs in 2025, 0.2% of the US total. 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. Say what the pallets carried. A load that touched edible oil is a different bin from a load that sat under sealed cartons. FDA does not approve pallet models, and recycled regrind is not made for food contact. In a pile from here, photograph the deck surface and any staining.

The rest of Rhode Island's pallet economy

Private jobs in 2025: food manufacturing 3,769, pharmaceutical manufacturing 1,258 and auto parts 228. Measured against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using industry here, at 0.8 times.

What the size of the state means

Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island

The table sets the warehousing counts of Connecticut and Massachusetts against Rhode Island.

Loads from the rest of Rhode Island

Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island

We found no Rhode Island law on abandoned pooled pallets in the sources behind this page. A mark still means a likely owner, so Rhode Island loads get the same ownership check as any other.

Describing a Rhode Island load

Begin with the Rhode Island ZIP and the count, then the footprint. A warehousing and storage pile calls for photos of the yard stacks, from the dock side. For food manufacturing, take the deck surface and any staining.