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The Repallet Ledger
Most sustainability pages tell you a number. This one lets you build your own, changes it as you move, shows you exactly which coefficients produced it, and then attaches the result to your quote request. It runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere until you press send.
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Use the button under the ledger to drop your figures straight into this form, or fill it in normally.
- CO₂e avoided per year
- 32.8 t
- Kept out of landfill
- 144.9 tons
- Standing trees not felled
- 330
- Saved vs. buying new
- $42,840
- Board feet still working
- 77,490
- Car-mile equivalent
- 81,900
Coefficients are published in full — read the methodology. Figures are planning estimates, not a verified inventory.
Why we built it
A green number nobody can check is worth nothing
Almost every supplier in this industry publishes an environmental claim. Almost none of them publish the arithmetic. The result is a market where nobody can compare two claims, which means the most confident claim wins rather than the most accurate one.
We built the ledger the other way round. Every coefficient it uses is stated on the methodology page — including the conservative ones that make our numbers smaller than they could be. If your sustainability team disagrees with a figure, they can substitute their own and the model still works.
What the four headline numbers mean
- CO₂e avoided — emissions not created because a pallet was reused rather than manufactured. Cradle-to-gate, at 5.2 kg per reuse.
- Kept out of landfill — the physical mass of wood that stayed in service instead of being disposed of, in short tons.
- Standing trees not felled — board feet retained divided by the usable yield of one mature plantation-grown pine. A rhetorical device with real arithmetic behind it.
- Saved vs buying new — the price gap between reclaimed and new stock on your chosen footprint, at your chosen volume.
What it deliberately does not do
It does not model your freight, your handling energy, your loss rate or your product damage. Those are real and they are specific to your operation, so putting a guess in them would make the whole model less trustworthy rather than more complete.
It also does not claim to be a verified inventory. It is a planning estimate. If you need audit-grade figures, we produce those from actual collection records for programme customers — see pallet management programs.
Worked examples
Three operations, three results
The ledger is easier to trust once you have seen it applied to shapes of business you recognise. All three use the published coefficients.
| Operation | Volume / month | Reclaimed share | CO₂e avoided / yr | Diverted / yr | Saved vs new |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-site manufacturer | 250 | 60% | 9.4 t | 41 tons | $12,240 |
| Regional distributor | 750 | 70% | 32.8 t | 145 tons | $42,840 |
| Multi-site group | 3,000 | 80% | 149.8 t | 662 tons | $195,840 |
All three assume the 48×40 GMA footprint at 46 lb and 12.3 board feet, 5.2 kg CO₂e avoided per reuse, and a $6.80 gap between new and reclaimed. Every one of those figures is stated with its uncertainty on the methodology page. You can reproduce each row with a calculator.
Using it in a report
How to present a ledger figure so it survives review
If one of these numbers is going into a sustainability report, it will eventually be challenged. Three habits make that a short conversation.
State it as an estimate, with its basis
“Approximately 33 tonnes CO₂e avoided annually, based on 5.2 kg per pallet reuse (cradle-to-gate, supplier-published coefficient)” survives review. “33 tonnes saved” does not, because the reader cannot tell what was measured.
Separate avoided emissions from stored carbon
These are different claims and adding them double-counts. The ledger reports avoided emissions only, deliberately.
Say what is excluded
The model excludes your freight, your handling energy, your loss rate and any end-of-life energy credits. Naming those exclusions makes the figure more credible, not less — and if your loop leaks, your real number is lower than the model shows.
If your framework mandates different factors
Send them. We will run your volumes through your coefficients rather than ours. The model is simple arithmetic and it works with any set of factors, which is the point of publishing the method rather than only the result.
For programme customers we produce the same figures from actual collection records rather than from a slider — see pallet management programs.