◆ Our origin story
We started with a pile of ‘trash’ nobody wanted.
EcoPallets Ohio is a family-run reclaimed pallet company in Huron, Ohio. We buy surplus and broken cores, repair and grade them, recycle what's left, haul it all, and build upcycled goods from the boards in between — closing the whole pallet loop in one yard.
Family-run in Huron, OH — zero pallets to landfill if we can help it.
Tell us what you need
1-min quote● The short version
Who we are, in one breath
We're a family-owned reclaimed pallet business based at 400 Sprowl Rd, Huron, OH 44839. We began by hauling and buying the surplus, damaged and odd-size pallet cores that local warehouses were paying to throw away — then discovered that "waste" was full of perfectly good solid-wood lumber.
That discovery became the company. Today we run the full loop: buying cores, repairing and grading stock, recycling and recovering lumber, hauling across Ohio, remanufacturing to spec, and upcycling leftover boards into finished goods. Most competitors do one slice of that. We do the circle.
→ How we grew
From a hauled load to the whole lifecycle
No overnight story — just one honest realization compounding into a business, phase by phase.
- 01In the early days
A trailer, a hunch, and a pile nobody wanted
It started as a side hustle hauling surplus and broken pallet cores out of local warehouses — the stuff docks called 'trash' and paid to dump. We bought loads cheap, sorted them by hand, and quickly noticed most of that lumber was perfectly good, kiln-dry solid wood.
- 02As we learned the material
The lumber was the whole story
One broken 48×40 has a dozen usable deck boards and stringers in it. Once we understood what reclaimed hardwood and softwood were actually worth, the math flipped: this wasn't waste we were removing, it was inventory we were rescuing.
- 03When the loads got bigger
We built a teardown & repair line
We invested in a proper reclamation setup — dismantlers, a re-nail station, a bandsaw for cut-down stringers, and space to grade. Broken pallets came in one door and shippable, repaired units went out the other.
- 04As word spread
Selling graded stock, not just hauling
Buyers wanted consistency, so we standardized grades — A, B, #1, #2 — and started selling repaired and remanufactured pallets by the truckload. The removal side funded the inventory side, and each fed the other.
- 05As volume outran repair
Recycling & lumber recovery at scale
Not everything can be saved as a whole pallet. We added dedicated recycling — pulling reusable boards for remanufacture, grinding the rest into mulch and biomass feedstock so almost nothing hits a landfill.
- 06Once the routes made sense
Logistics became a real service
Scheduled pickups, drop-trailers staged at customer docks, and Ohio-wide runs turned an ad-hoc hauling habit into dependable logistics. Tidy docks, on-time swaps, no surprises.
- 07Today
A full loop — including upcycled goods
We close the whole circle: buy cores, repair and grade them, recycle what's left, haul it all, and build furniture, planters and décor from the reclaimed boards that don't belong under a forklift. One yard, the entire pallet lifecycle.
★ What we stand on
A repair-first waste hierarchy — and plain dealing
The rules that decide what happens to every pallet that touches the yard.
Repair before recycle
We follow a strict waste hierarchy: repair a pallet before we part it out, reuse boards before we grind them, downcycle to mulch or biomass before anything is written off. Landfill is the option of absolute last resort.
Grade it honestly
A #2 sold as a #1 comes back as a complaint. We call grades exactly what they are so a pallet performs the way you expect on the first trip — and the tenth.
Waste is a design flaw
If material is leaving the yard as garbage, we didn't finish the job. Every board has a next best use, and finding it is the work.
Answer like a human
No phone tree, no hold music. A real person on the yard team replies to your email — usually within a business day — with a straight answer.
✦ Full-loop vs. single-service
Most pallet outfits do one thing. We close the loop.
Plenty of companies only sell new pallets. Others only haul, or only grind for recycling. When your needs cross those lines, you end up juggling three vendors and three invoices — and the boards fall through the cracks between them.
Because we buy, repair, sell, recycle, haul and remanufacture under one roof, a broken pallet we pick up on Monday can be graded stock heading back out on Friday. Nothing gets handed off to someone whose only incentive is landfill.
◆ Rooted here
Why Huron, and why Ohio
Being in the middle of the manufacturing belt isn't an accident — it's the advantage.
Dense with docks
Northern Ohio is thick with warehouses, distributors and manufacturers — which means a steady supply of cores to reclaim and a steady demand for graded stock, both within a short haul.
Short loops, small footprint
Keeping intake and delivery close together means fewer road miles per pallet. Local circularity is greener circularity — the material doesn't crisscross the country to get a second life.
Neighbors, not accounts
We recognize the docks we pull from and the crews we deliver to. That's how a family business earns repeat work — by showing up on time and answering the email.
Built for the region
From Huron we cover the northern Ohio corridor and beyond for pickups, deliveries and recycling. Tell us your ZIP and we'll confirm the logistics.
● Our promise
What you can count on from us
Simple commitments, kept.
A human, usually within a day
Email us and a real person on the yard team answers — no ticket queue, no call center.
What we call it is what you get
Grades are described plainly so pallets perform as promised. No upselling a #2 into a #1.
We reclaim before we discard
Every board gets its best next use before anything is written off. That order is the whole point.
Now you know our story — what's yours?
Cores piling up, or a truckload of graded stock needed by Friday? Tell us what you've got.