Housebuilder Barratt Developments has joined forces with European Logistics Management (ELM), a member of the Scott Group, to launch a specialist pallet repatriation service for its building projects across the UK.
Barrett group procurement director John Adams said that as part of the company’s initiative to reduce packaging waste on its sites it identified environmental and cost-saving benefits of returning wooden pallets to suppliers for reuse.
“This initiative will benefit all organisations using pallets as a packaging and transport medium, and is also a very positive environmental statement,” said Mr Adams.
All suppliers to the Barratt Group, which includes Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes and Ward Homes, will be required to mark pallets with an identifier that will enable ELM to return them to source.
ELM managing director Michael Noble said the initiative was in line with the industry’s objective to reduce packaging waste and promote the reuse of transit packaging. “The service is being implemented by Barratt Developments prior to the publication of the industry’s Packaging Resource Efficiency Plan,” he said.
ELM is a reverse logistics specialist and offers various pallet pool services including specification evaluation, tracking, tracing and recovering transit packaging from market. Services include inspection, repair and refurbishment of transit packaging as well as statistical analysis of packaging specification performance.
