Gaylord boxes in Salem County, New Jersey

Salem County is the most rural of the valley's New Jersey counties. Farms of vegetables, grain and orchards spread across it, and the small towns are agricultural service centers. At the southwest corner, along the river at Deepwater and Pennsville, a chemical manufacturing belt faces Delaware across the water.

These two worlds use bulk boxes differently. The farms need cheap bins in season. The chemical plants need clean, strong boxes for products and raw materials, and have little use for a Grade C stack. A seller with a mixed lot can often split it between the two.

Our research lists chemical manufacturing, fluoropolymers and farming as the county's main users of bulk boxes. We state no sourced figures and name no operators.

Boxes that held hazardous chemicals are outside what we take. We say so here so that nobody wastes a request on them.

This page covers 08023, 08069, 08070, 08067, 08079, 08098 and 08038. The industries to expect there, from our market research: chemical manufacturing, fluoropolymers and farming.

Produce moves from early summer through fall: tomatoes, peppers, sweet corn, melons and pumpkins in sequence. Chemical plants run all year.

• Buy. Farms wanting bins in season; plants wanting boxes for non-hazardous goods.
• Sell. Packers and plants with clean empties.
• Recycle. Damp or torn farm boxes, flattened and ready for the baler.

For farm requests, give us the crop and the weeks you need the boxes. Timing matters more than anything else.

• Fluoropolymer. A family of plastics resistant to heat and chemicals, made in large plants along the Delaware at Deepwater.
• Packing shed. A building on or near a farm where crops are sorted, boxed and staged for sale.
• Orchard run. Fruit packed as it comes from the trees without sorting by size, usually moved in bulk bins.

• The town and ZIP.
• Whether the boxes are for a farm, a packer or a plant.
• The count, footprint and grade.
• The weeks you need them or can release them.