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The recent judgments and settlements against/with CHEP are great but they still fall far short of the true value recyclers should be obtaining for these lost/stray pallets. It would appear that if CHEP were saddled with having to pay recyclers only $5.00 for the return of lost pallet they would make out like a bandit. CHEP routinely bills it customers in excess of $20 per pallet for lost or unaccounted for pallets. It also appears that CHEP structures its agreements with its customers to hinder their ability to avoid these cost. Otherwise they could avoid the cost by relying on independent recyclers to provide them with recovered CHEP pallets. It is commonly reported that CHEP uses the lost pallet fee billing as a leverage tool in negotiation with its customers who are often caught of guard by the enormity of the bill. Recyclers could cut this cost considerably for the customer and be far less than the $20+ fee CHEP charges but more than $5.00 per pallet recovered.