Gaylords in New Castle and Delaware City

South of Wilmington the Delaware widens, and the shore from New Castle to Delaware City is industrial. A major refinery stands at Delaware City; a plant that makes surfactants and ethylene glycol stands near New Castle; logistics yards tie them to Interstate 95.

Both plants use small solids in bulk boxes: additives, catalysts, filters. Both generate empties after a delivery or a turnaround. We ask what the boxes held before anything else, and we do not take hazardous ones.

PBF Energy's Delaware City refinery lists 180,000 barrels per day of total nameplate capacity (Wikipedia). Croda's Atlas Point plant near New Castle, on a site in industrial use since 1937, makes surfactants and ethylene glycol and built its own ethylene oxide plant after 2018 (DNREC).

We cite the plants for geography and name no company as a customer.

This page covers 19720, 19706, 19733 and 19701. The industries to expect there, from our market research: petroleum refining, surfactants, specialty chemicals and logistics.

Turnarounds bring contractors and supplies for weeks at a time. Otherwise the flow is steady.

• Buy. Contractors wanting used multi-trip boxes for non-hazardous goods.
• Sell. Clean empties from a delivery.
• Recycle. Torn or stained stacks.

If a box held a chemical, name it. We say plainly what we can take.

• Ethylene glycol. A colorless liquid used in antifreeze and polyester, made at the Atlas Point plant.
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. A shipping canal linking the Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay.
• Fort Delaware. A Civil War fort on Pea Patch Island, reached by ferry from Delaware City in season.

• What the boxes carried.
• The ZIP and site type.
• The count and footprint.
• Whether the site restricts outside trucks.