Returning pooled pallets to their owner
Pooled pallets are rented, not sold: CHEP says it never sells or gives up ownership of its blue pallets, and PECO says its red pallets may not be bought, sold or destroyed. Their end of life is the owner's return route. In a waste report, count them as returned to owner, not as your waste.
Who owns them
- CHEP: blue pallets 'clearly marked as being the property of CHEP' (CHEP).
- PECO: red pallets with white logos marked 'OWNED BY PECO' (PECO, April 2023).
- iGPS: plastic pooled pallets. Use the contact route on iGPS's website or the label on the pallet.
How they get back
CHEP takes collection requests on its US site and through its customer portal. PECO asks anyone holding stray red pallets to set them aside and call its recovery group; its April 2023 letter describes a per-pallet recovery payment for stray pallets, with the amount set by PECO. Details for each are on the pooled pallets pages.
How to count them
Pooled pallets leave your site but are not waste you generated. The Pallet Fate Report takes them out of the wood tonnage and lists them as returned to owner. Count them toward a diversion rate if your program allows; most do, because nothing was disposed of.
If you pick pooled pallets as your pallet type in the pickup request, the site sends you to the owner's own return route instead of passing on a request. That's deliberate: nobody else can lawfully take them.
Sources
- Request blue pallet collection CHEP USA. Accessed October 27, 2026.
- PECO Asset Recovery Program (letter dated April 1, 2023) PECO Pallet. Accessed October 27, 2026.
- iGPS Logistics iGPS. Accessed October 27, 2026. The site refused automated reading on the access date; nothing on this site is drawn from it beyond its address.