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“... Wooden pallets are everywhere. Stacked in skips, left on verges and pavements, at the sides of roads where lorries hurtle past them, filled with yet more pallets loaded with goods. There are billions of the things, carrying 80 per cent of the global economy’s pandemonium of commodities across seas, along motorways and to local shops.The first US patent for a wooden pallet was filed in the 1930s and their use took off during the Second World War ...”