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

How Wyoming compares

Across 23 establishments, warehousing and storage in Wyoming employed 1,974 people in 2025. That is 0.10% of the national total and puts the state 45th of 50, with an average of 85.8 jobs per site.

The state sits in the Mountain states, a Census division. Its sites average 85.8 jobs against 81.5 across the country, and it holds 0.10% of the nation's warehousing establishments.

Where the warehousing jobs sit in Wyoming

The counties with the most warehousing jobs, from the same BLS count: Laramie (1,747) and Albany (42).

• Laramie County1,747 jobs, 88.5% of the Wyoming total.
• Albany County42 jobs, 2.1% of the Wyoming total.

What fills the yards in Wyoming

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

• Warehousing and storage1,974 private jobs in 2025, 0.1% 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.
• Chemical manufacturing1,811 private jobs in 2025, 0.2% of the US total. Say what the pallets carried. A residue of an unknown chemical is a stop. A drum pallet that held a benign material is a normal stream. In a pile from here, photograph any staining and the drum seats.

The rest of Wyoming's pallet economy

Private jobs in 2025: food manufacturing 902, pharmaceutical manufacturing 65 and auto parts 23. Measured against the national share of employment, chemical manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using industry here, at 1.3 times.

What the size of the state means

Wyoming 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.

Big metros elsewhere in the Mountain states

Against Wyoming's 1,974 warehousing jobs, the largest metros in the same division are Phoenix, Arizona (42,340, 21.45 times), Las Vegas, Nevada (28,250, 14.31 times), Denver, Colorado (15,858, 8.03 times), Reno, Nevada (12,269, 6.22 times) and Salt Lake City, Utah (6,623, 3.36 times).

Next to Wyoming

The table sets the warehousing counts of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Utah against Wyoming.

Loads from the rest of Wyoming

Wyoming 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 Wyoming

No Wyoming-specific rule on stray proprietary pallets appears in our sources. Check every pallet for marks first; California's AB 1760 is the one rule we cite.

Describing a Wyoming load

For a Wyoming pickup: ZIP, count, footprint. From warehousing and storage, photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side. From chemical manufacturing, photograph any staining and the drum seats.