59 of America's largest retailers and distributors. Not one publishes a wood diversion rate.

The census

Every company, the wood figure in its current report, how that compares with its own previous edition, and a link to the document it came from. Ordered so the companies that publish the most appear first. Every statement here describes a document - what appears in it and what does not, as of the screening date. HELD, ADDED and DROPPED describe the disclosure, never the company's performance. A unit count is listed separately from a weight because the two cannot be added together, and only one of them can enter a diversion rate.

Why the number doesn't exist

This is nobody's fault. Pallets have paperwork - plenty of it. It was just never built to answer this question.

That is why a company can publish a pallet count and still not produce a rate: the count is what the handoff document was built to capture, and the rate needs an answer that only exists at the other end of the trip. The companies above deserve credit for what they do publish. The gap is in a form the whole industry inherited, not in any one company's effort.

Methodology & corrections

Why we publish this: Pallet Solutions runs managed pallet programs, and the reporting this page says is missing is something we sell. We have an obvious interest in the finding. That is exactly why every figure here links to the company's own document - so that nothing on this page depends on trusting us. Check the sources, not the author. What we did: opened each company's most recent published waste disclosure at the source - reports, appendices, and data tables - and recorded what appears for wood and pallets. How companies get on this list: they are large US retailers and distributors, screened for size and pallet intensity. Inclusion is not by request: companies are screened whether or not they participate, and nobody can buy, request or decline a place. If a company wants to appear here with a figure, the route is to publish one - the same route as everyone else. This census does not take applications. It takes publications. "Publishes" means: a wood or pallet figure appears in the company's own current public document. Figures are quoted as published, in the company's own units. Where this page says a figure does not appear: it means we opened the document named in that row, on the screening date, and did not find one. It is a statement about a document we read - not a claim about what a company measures internally, or about what may appear somewhere we did not look. Where a document could not be reached at all, the row says that instead of guessing. If we missed a figure, that is a correction and we want it. "Wood diversion rate" means: a rate for wood specifically - wood diverted over wood generated. That needs both halves. Ten companies publish wood diverted by weight and several publish an all-material diversion rate, but none publishes the wood that went to landfill - it sits inside an undifferentiated waste line, so the rate cannot be computed from what is there. An all-material rate is not a wood rate, and this census does not count it as one. Statements describe the documents - what appears and what does not appear - as of the screening date - every row was opened at source between 13 and 24 July 2026 - and rows are updated as companies publish new reports. This is a survey of 59 US giants, not a claim of completeness. Year anchor: the census is anchored on the 2025 reporting cycle - each company's most recent report published in 2025 or 2026. Where a company's latest document is older than that, the row says so. Year over year measures disclosure, not performance: whether a wood or pallet figure appears this cycle and last. HELD, ADDED and DROPPED describe the document. Where a figure exists in both editions the raw change is stated and not interpreted - a larger number can mean more waste, better measurement, or a bigger business, and this census does not claim to know which. The prior-year pass covers the 17 companies that carry a wood or pallet figure in either cycle; the remaining rows were screened for the current cycle only. Corrections and replies: if a figure here is wrong, outdated, or we missed one, tell us at robert.gregg@palletsolutionsusa.com - we check it the same week, correct the row, and credit whoever caught it. If a company wants context published next to its row, send it and we will link it. Before you rely on any figure here, open the source. This page is a reading of public documents on a stated date. The company's own report is the authority - this census is only a map of where to find it. Check us: every row links to the source document, every row has a permanent anchor you can cite, and the whole table downloads as a CSV.