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These plants ask about drainage and cleaning first, then about static load for the product stacked on the pallet. It tends to lean on a washable nestable or stackable that drains, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about whether the deck drains and how the maker says to clean it.",{"h2":110,"blocks":111},"The empty return",[112,114],{"t":10,"text":113},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 25 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Omaha sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 20,000 pallets. 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