Dutchman Uses Worthless Coconut Husks to Make Profitable Pallets to ‘Save Millions of Trees’ per Year

Dutchman Uses Worthless Coconut Husks to Make Profitable Pallets to ‘Save Millions of Trees’ per Year
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Michael Wing
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From serving in the Dutch army to living on a beach in Barbados, Michiel Vos has trekked the globe finding his niche. Perhaps taking a cue from the beach where he once lived, Vos realized that coconuts were exactly what the world needed.

Supply chain backlogs in California are in the news lately, but another shipping challenge posed are the 1.7 billion wooden pallets annually shipped one-way from China—where wood is scarce and valuable—and worthlessly discarded stateside. That’s 170 million trees felled per year.

Michael Wing
Michael Wing
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Michael Wing is a writer and editor based in Calgary, Canada, where he was born and educated in the arts. He writes mainly on culture, human interest, and trending news.
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