
HOME DEPOT “By converting some of its vendors from shipping on wooden pallets to shipping on plastic slip sheets, Home Depot figures it has"
- Eliminated 1.8 MM pallets from retail operations
- Saves $660,000 each year versus pallet purchase costs
- Realizes another $760,000 in pallet maintenance and disposal costs
- Total supply chain freight costs reduction is greater than $2.2 MM annually
- Prevents 15 million board feet of lumber from entering the waste stream each year
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