Guidance for the people who have to get pallets right

Export & packaging compliance

ISPM15 and IPPC marking, GB-to-EU movements, and how UK and EU packaging obligations sit alongside plant-health rules.

Solid wood packaging moving between Great Britain and the EU generally needs ISPM15 treatment and marking in both directions — the requirement is not limited to destinations outside the EU. Packaging waste regulation is a separate obligation and is treated separately here.

• Compliance hub

  Four regimes — ISPM15, EU PPWR, UK packaging EPR and waste classification — kept apart, with the evidence each one needs.

• ISPM15 explained for UK businesses

  What the mark evidences, why paperwork cannot replace it, and how to inspect your own stock.

• PPWR explained, and why it is not ISPM15

  EU packaging regulation applying from mid-2026, kept separate from plant health and from UK EPR.

• Great Britain to EU pallet movements

  What is settled, what is genuinely uncertain, and the evidence that turns uncertainty into a decision.

• Exporting goods on pallets

  The pre-dispatch sequence that stops pallet problems being discovered at the loading bay.

Unwanted, surplus & pooled pallets

What to do with accumulated stock, how surplus value is assessed, how pooled and branded pallets must be handled, and the fire and safety risk of yard storage.

• How to identify pooled pallets on your site

  Recognising CHEP, LPR and IPP stock from colour, branding and construction — and the correct route off site.

• Blue and red pallets: what you can do with them

  Why strong colour almost always means rented, not owned, and why they cannot be sold or scrapped.

• Pallet safety and storage

  Inspection, stacking, segregation, fire load and why racking and load limits are always site-specific.

Grades, sizes & procurement

Pallet sizes and dimensions, grading terminology, construction types, matching a specification to the load, and how to specify pallets inside a procurement process.

• Pallet specifications: how to describe what you need

  Footprint, construction, entry, grade and treatment — and why a 1200×800 footprint alone does not make a pallet EPAL.

• Pallet sizes and dimensions

  The two footprints you meet most, how to measure a sample, and what a footprint leaves open.

• Pallet grades explained

  Why grade letters travel badly between suppliers, and how to define condition so it survives.

Reuse, recovery & reporting

The waste hierarchy applied to pallets, repair versus recycling, what can and cannot be evidenced in sustainability reporting, and how service records should be structured.

• Sustainability: reuse, recovery and waste reduction

  The reuse-first approach, and what Palletmove will and will not put into a number.

• Reuse and recovery: repair or recycle

  Reading the damage, and why recycling a repairable pallet is a sorting failure.

• Reducing pallet waste in warehouse operations

  The five causes of pallet damage we see most, and the fixes that cost less than the replacements.

• Pallet disposal and recycling

  Four piles, four destinations — and where legal waste classification starts to matter.

• Reuse and the waste hierarchy

  Prevention, preparing for re-use, recycling, other recovery, disposal — applied to pallets.