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CocoPallet

Transforms coconut waste into sustainable export pallets, replacing wood and reducing deforestation.

CocoPallet manufactures fully circular, bio-based export pallets made from coconut husk waste as an alternative to traditional wooden pallets. Their products are 100% wood-free and ISPM15 compliant for international shipping, while also being designed to improve sustainability and lower costs for businesses.

The company was founded with a mission centered on stakeholder value rather than just shareholder value, as expressed by founder Michiel Vos. Their approach focuses on making sustainability both affordable and scalable, operating under the principle that environmental solutions must be economically viable to achieve widespread adoption.

CocoPallet addresses multiple environmental and social challenges simultaneously by reducing deforestation, minimizing waste, and supporting poverty reduction. Their impact spans from preventing the cutting of millions of trees used for one-way wooden pallets to repurposing the 85% of coconut husks that would otherwise be landfilled, flushed, or burned, while generating additional income for coconut farmers and creating end-of-life value as soil improver.

Impact model

CocoPallet creates impact through a circular economy approach that transforms waste coconut husks into valuable export pallets, simultaneously addressing deforestation by replacing wooden pallets and waste management issues in coconut-producing regions. They generate additional income streams for coconut farmers by purchasing their waste husks and create a fully circular product that can be sold as soil improver at end-of-life.

The company delivers measurable environmental and social outcomes including reducing deforestation by providing an alternative to the 170 million trees used annually for one-way wooden pallets, diverting the 85% of coconut husks that are typically landfilled or burned, and supporting poverty reduction through farmer income generation. Their model demonstrates that sustainability can be made affordable and scalable through innovative waste-to-product solutions.

Impact metrics

170 million trees per year are used to produce one-way wooden pallets (which CocoPallet helps reduce); 85% of coconut husks are landfilled, flushed or burned (waste that CocoPallet repurposes)