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Case study · McDonald's and HAVI · Second-life pallet
Utilising material from a captive waste stream
Second-life pallet: baskets ground to flake and moulded directly, with no extrusion step.
AION · Bread-basket pallet · McDonald's / HAVI
THE PROBLEM
Damaged bread baskets left the supply chain as waste, while the wooden pallets in the same loop wore out and were replaced.
THE SOLUTION
Second-life pallet
Damaged bread baskets are ground to flake and moulded straight into a rackable pallet, with no extrusion step in between. The pallet carries no virgin input, and when one is retired it is recycled into new pallets.
THE VALUE
1 for 2.4
wooden pallets replaced over 48 trips
One moulded pallet outlasts 2.4 wooden ones
Over 48 trips, the loop needs 2.4 wooden pallets for every moulded one. The baskets that used to leave as waste now come back as the pallets.
100%
recycled plastic, no virgin input
10.5 kg
versus about 24 kg for wood
600 kg
racking capacity