Gaylords in Chester

Chester sits on the Delaware between the Eddystone shore and Marcus Hook, and its waterfront has been a working industrial strip for more than a century. Today it combines marine terminals with a waste-to-energy facility and a few manufacturers. The soccer stadium on the river is the part of the skyline most visitors know.

The waste-to-energy plant tells you something about local boxes: a lot of the city's material goes through a facility that burns what cannot be recycled. A box in good condition is worth more resold or baled than burned, and that is the gap this page is for.

The city lists marine terminals, waste-to-energy and manufacturing as its main users of bulk boxes in our research. We have no sourced figures for individual operators.

Chester lies along I-95 and close to the Commodore Barry Bridge, which connects to the Pureland area of New Jersey across the river.

This page covers 19013 and 19016. The industries to expect there, from our market research: marine terminals, waste-to-energy and manufacturing.

Terminals follow ships; manufacturers follow orders. There is no strong seasonal pattern.

• Buy. Shops and small plants needing used boxes for outbound goods.
• Sell. Boxes from a terminal tenant or manufacturer that have no further use.
• Recycle. Mixed stacks that need sorting: we separate fiber value from boxes with resale value.

A photo of the stack, if you have one, speeds the grade call.

• Waste-to-energy. A facility that burns municipal waste to make electricity, which sets the alternative against which a recycled box is measured.
• Tipping. Unloading a truck at a processing site; tipping fees are what haulers pay to leave waste.
• Wharf. A structure on the shore where ships load and unload, as along the Chester waterfront.

• The ZIP and the address type: yard, dock or street door.
• The grade as you see it, and a photo if you can.
• The count and footprint.
• Whether the boxes are wet.