Abstract: A recyclable lightweight pallet having a plurality of elongated runners and mating crosspieces. Each runner including a plurality of elongated parallel juxtaposed runner sections of fiber board, with laterally extending assembled openings defined therein and longitudinally spaced apart therealong. Each elongated parallel juxtaposed crosspiece sections of fiber board, jointly defining opposed assembled ends. Each assembled end of each crosspiece is formed to mate with an assembled opening in one of the plurality of runners, the runners and mating crosspieces forming a generally rectangular pallet.