30/06/05 North Carolina To Ban Pallets From Landfills

North Carolina is poised to make it illegal to throw wooden pallets into landfills, along with other items such as oil filters, plastic containers and oyster shells. If these proposals making their way through the General Assembly become law, such bans could result in longer life spans for landfills, more business for North Carolina companies engaged in recycling, predicted a local newspaper. In jurisdictions where pallet landfill is banned, customers may be more willing to pay for pallet removal, or more interested in requesting pallets of standard sizes that are of interest to pallet recyclers.