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Broken or damaged pallets often end their life cycle in landfill sites and so the BLOCKPal pallet not only offers a cost-effective alternative , it also helps customers achieve sustainability and environmental goals .
“ Our BLOCKPal pallet is also about 25 % lighter than a comparable block pallet and this really promotes fuel savings and efficiency from a weight standpoint ,” comments deRoulhac . “ The process of moving pallets around is also much more efficient because we can get 630 unloaded pallets into a truck versus standard block pallets where there can only be about 540 in a load . In this way , we ’ re reducing weight , the number of trips , the number of deliveries , and the number of trucks on the road , which is having a positive environmental impact .”
The connectivity of the RM2ELIoT Smart Pallet to the AT & T LTE-M network unlocks the benefits of the reusable BLOCKPAL pallet . Pure Strategies , a US sustainability consulting firm , conducted a peerreviewed life cycle assessment comparing the environmental impacts of the BLOCKPal pallet to those of a standard multi-trip wooden pallet . Utilizing this data , AT & T has conducted a case study on the RM2 Smart Pallet called ‘ Unlocking the Potential of Connected , Reusable Pallets
This study concluded that the connectivity of the RM2ELIoT Smart pallet enables the user to potentially avoid 640 metric tons of CO2 per year , which is equivalent to 72,000 gallons of gas for every million pallet trips . Based
RM2 Founder Matthew Gilfillan at ATT press conference
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