
DISPOSABLE wooden transport racks – The sad reality
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The following pictures show timber transport racks which are only used for ONE SINGLE delivery were or are used.
Wood from Trees that grow for 70 to 150 years had to, is for obvious Garbage transport racks After glass, for example, has been transported 20 to 100 kilometers on these disposable racks and has arrived at the customer or retailer, they have to take care of the disposal and dispose of what is essentially still "new" and environmentally valuable material at great expense.
On large construction sites, large containers are often ordered for this purpose. The waste disposal company is happy to send the client a hefty bill for the disposal. The waste is then often disposed of in incineration plants. As mentioned, the trees needed 70 to 150 years to grow.
If no containers are used for disposal, employees have to spend hours cutting up the disposable transport racks. This can be very expensive.
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Delivering on disposable racks is very costly, as, as already mentioned, they are only used once. Ultimately, the use of disposable racks means that a new glass rack must be purchased, organized, stored, and, above all, planned for each delivery. This creates a constant stream of unnecessary acquisition costs , storage costs, organizational and planning costs as well as transport costs for new disposable racks.
In some companies we were informed that the purchase costs for disposable frames can be up to half a million euros per year How many trees are there that are only for these companies, every year likes become?