{"title":"Official return channels for pooled and rental pallets","description":"Where each pallet pool's owner asks holders of its stray pallets to request a pickup. One row per pool and region, each with the date the link was last opened and checked.","rows":[{"id":"chep-us","operator":"CHEP USA","region":"United States","pallets":"Wood block pallets painted blue and stenciled as CHEP property.","channel":"Online blue-pallet collection request","url":"https://www.chep.com/us/en/request-blue-pallet-collection-US","also":"CHEP customers can book a collection through their myCHEP account.","serves":"Any business holding empty blue pallets it received from a retailer, wholesaler or manufacturer.","ownership":"The page says CHEP owns its pallets and never sells them or gives up ownership.","checked":"2026-10-27","status":"verified"},{"id":"chep-ca","operator":"CHEP Canada","region":"Canada","pallets":"Wood block pallets painted blue and stenciled as CHEP property.","channel":"Online blue-pallet collection request (English; a French page is linked from it)","url":"https://www.chep.com/ca/en/request-blue-pallet-collection","also":"CHEP customers can book a collection through myCHEP.","serves":"Businesses in Canada holding empty blue pallets.","ownership":"The page says the empty blue pallets are the property of CHEP.","checked":"2026-10-27","status":"verified"},{"id":"peco","operator":"PECO Pallet","region":"United States and Canada","pallets":"Wood block pallets painted red and marked PECO.","channel":"Online pallet pickup request (Pallet Recovery page)","url":"https://pecopallet.com/pallet-recovery/","also":"The same page lists a recovery email address, a phone line, and returns through a RED<>LINK account.","serves":"Anyone who finds PECO pallets, even one or two. The form takes a count and a pickup address in a US state or Canadian province.","ownership":"The page says PECO pallets are PECO's property and that selling, buying, exchanging or repurposing them is illegal.","checked":"2026-10-27","status":"verified"},{"id":"lpr","operator":"LPR (La Palette Rouge)","region":"Europe","pallets":"Red-painted wood pallets in the LPR pool. In Europe, a red pallet is more likely LPR than PECO.","channel":"Online collection request","url":"https://www.lpr.eu/collection-request-lpr/","also":"LPR's team replies to arrange collection at the site.","serves":"Holders of LPR pallets in the countries LPR serves.","ownership":"LPR runs them as a rental pool, so they are returned, not sold.","checked":"2026-10-27","status":"verified"},{"id":"igps","operator":"iGPS Logistics","region":"United States","pallets":"Plastic pallets with the iGPS name molded in. iGPS says its pallets carry RFID tags.","channel":"Official website contact options","url":"https://igps.net/","also":"We could not confirm a dedicated return page: igps.net refused our automated check on 2026-10-27. Use the contact options on the site and confirm the pickup details with iGPS.","serves":"Holders of stray iGPS plastic pallets.","ownership":"iGPS rents its pallets through its pool and has worked with police to recover misappropriated ones (iGPS press release, 2011).","checked":"2026-10-27","status":"partial"}]}