Sell your gaylord boxes
We buy gaylords that are dry and sound, in any quantity from a few pallets to a trailer, and we say plainly which ones resell and which ones go to the baler as OCC.
One request, two outcomes
Every stack of empties ends one of two ways. A dry box with intact flaps and bottom goes back into use. A wet, crushed or bottomless box goes to the baler as old corrugated. The same dock can produce both in the same week, and the same pile often holds both.
You do not need to sort first. Tell us what is stacked, how it looks and where it sits, and we tell you which side of the line it falls on. A single request covers both. That is why the form on this site has one door for buy, sell and recycle: the sorting question is the whole business.
We do not publish prices, minimum quantities, who pays freight or turnaround here. We have not set those terms on the site, so we do not guess at them. We answer by email with what we can do for your stack.
Who sells to us
| Seller | Usual stack | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse and 3PL operations | Single-trip empties left from inbound freight | Pureland, Route 130, the Keystone Trade Center, Falls Township |
| Resin and plastics plants | 48 x 40 partial-bottom and octagon boxes | Bucks County, Northeast Philadelphia, New Castle |
| Food manufacturers and distributors | Mixed grades, some liners | Bensalem, Pennsauken, Logan Township |
| Parts and metal makers | Heavy 4 and 5 wall boxes | Montgomery and Delaware counties |
| Growers and packing sheds | Octabins after the season | Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland counties |
Naming a place does not mean a business there is our customer. These are the kinds of docks that produce gaylord empties, and the places around the Delaware Valley where they pile up.
What makes a stack sell
- Dry. Corrugated loses about half its compression strength when relative humidity climbs from 50 to 90 percent.
- Intact. Flaps fold square and the bottom has not torn or gone missing.
- Sorted by size. Mixed footprints are harder to move than one pile of 48 x 40.
- Knocked down or stacked set up. Most used gaylords travel knocked down flat; see folding them flat.
- Labelled honestly. Old print and labels are fine; hidden damage is not. Printed and labelled covers the detail.
Three ways it usually goes
A few pallets from a retail back room: send photos if you like, say how many and when they are ready. A steady flow of single-trip boxes from inbound freight: the single-trip page explains what to tell us. A trailer load or more: trailer loads covers counts and stacking.
And when the answer is the baler, recycling and its pickup page explain how a request for that works. Send one request; we sort it from there.
Where stacks sit across the Delaware Valley
We hear from people with stacks at Pureland and Swedesboro in Gloucester County, at the Keystone Trade Center and in Falls Township, along Route 130 through Pennsauken, in Bensalem and Northeast Philadelphia, along the Schuylkill at Norristown, and near the Port of Wilmington and the airport at New Castle. The common thread is not the zip code but the dock: any building that unloads freight leaves boxes behind.
A short history of why empties pile up
The box has long been a one-way convenience for many shippers: it arrives full, gets emptied and sits. Return freight rarely pays, so empties stack in corners, on mezzanines and along dock walls until someone needs the space.
That habit created the used-box trade. The 3PLs and distribution buildings of the Delaware Valley turn over inbound freight all day, and every unloaded pallet leaves an empty box. A building that handles a few hundred pallets a week produces a stack that grows faster than anyone budgets for. Selling that stack is not clever. It is housekeeping that happens to have a buyer.
Questions people ask
Who buys used gaylord boxes near me?
We do, across Philadelphia, its Pennsylvania counties, South Jersey and northern Delaware. Ask on the form.
Do I need to sort before I ask?
No. Describe the stack and we will say which part resells and which part is OCC.
Do you pay for recycled boxes?
We state no prices on this site. Ask, and we answer by email.
Sources
- Container Exchanger: gaylord boxes, new and used, last reviewed November 11, 2026
- Corrugated and humidity, Paper Index academy, last reviewed November 11, 2026
Offer us your empties
Tell us what is stacked, in what shape, and where. We reply by email.
Prefer email? Write to info@phillygaylords.com.