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OPATRACE

A place where people can work together to manage and move recycled wooden pallets.

A place where people can work together to manage and move recycled wooden pallets.

Smart Euro Pallet Management & Tracking Solution – OPATRACE –

Almost 500 million Euro pallets move around the world today. But with a loss rate of 10–15%, which is caused by Supply Chain professionals working in silos and not talking to each other, this is a real economic and environmental disaster. Opatrace helps to increase the number and quality of recycled Euro-pallets that are available, so that logistics actors not only use them, but reuse them more and better. How? The collaborative platform shows the flow of pallets in real time, so they can be better returned, bought less often, and thrown away less. By collecting information, the solution helps professionals in the supply chain reduce their losses of wooden pallets and promote the circular economy of packaging. It also helps reduce the costs of managing and transporting load carriers (less CO2 emissions). Everyone in the chain, from the supplier to the consignee to the carrier, benefits from increased productivity and better management of reverse packaging. By getting back all of the wooden pallets that can be used again, we save the natural resource and indirectly stop trees from being cut down.

Positive facts about OPATRACE

100% of pallets collected and re-used (vs 85% with traditional tools)
445,000 tons of CO2 stored per year, through 10 million pallets managed
Can preserve up to 2000 hectares of forest per year, avoiding 5 to 7.5 million lost pallets annually.
Wood material recycled and revalued at the end of the cycle, with a life span of 8 to 10 years
Return on investment less than 6 months.
20% to 30% reduction in management time dedicated to pallet flows

Video about OPATRACE

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AvrdN_FlsKk

OPATRACE website : https://opalean.com

Arnaud Michel, founder of Keys for Tomorrow
About the curator

Arnaud Michel is the founder and curator of Keys for Tomorrow. In 2014, his master’s thesis on community currencies and sustainable development won the Prix Recherche at Belgium’s Prix de l’Économie Sociale; the research was later published as Ecological Economics (Elsevier, 2015). He curates this directory to the same standard, cross-checking every project against established certification bodies and directories — including B Corp, 1% for the Planet, and Solar Impulse Foundation — alongside direct research into each project’s own record. Connect on LinkedIn.

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