Recycling
Sizes, grades, pricing and logistics for recycling, from the people who broker them.
What Determines the Value of Your Surplus Packaging
Volume, condition, standard sizing, contamination, and freight decide what a buyer will pay for your surplus pallets, gaylords, totes, drums, and bulk bags — and whether reuse beats scrap.
Packaging Recycling Audit Checklist
A step-by-step audit to inventory every packaging stream leaving your dock, price its current disposition, and surface the reusable pallets and totes you're paying to throw away.
IBC Tote Reconditioning vs. Recycling: End-of-Life Decision Guide
How to decide whether a used IBC tote should be reconditioned, rebottled, or recycled — the inspection criteria for the bottle, cage, and valve, and when prior contents force the recycling path.
Gaylord Box Reuse vs. Recycle: When to Do Which
A pallet of empty gaylords is either an asset or a disposal cost. Here's how to inspect them and decide whether to reuse, resell, recycle, or dispose.
How to Prep Gaylord Boxes for Pickup or Recycling
A working guide to prepping accumulated gaylord boxes: sort reusable from recycle-only, keep sellable boxes intact, break down and bale the rest, and stage dense, palletized loads a truck can take in one stop.
How to Set Up a Packaging Recycling Program at Your Facility
A practical, six-phase playbook for ops and warehouse managers: audit your streams, segregate at the source, decide reuse vs. resell vs. recycle, and measure what you recover.
Acceptable Condition Standards for Reuse & Recycling
A practical reference for sorting used pallets, gaylords, IBC totes, drums, and bulk bags into three buckets — good enough to resell, recycle-only, or reject — with concrete acceptance criteria for each.
How to Sell Surplus Packaging for the Most Money
A seller's playbook for recovering the most cash on surplus pallets, totes, drums, and gaylords — sort by grade, build to truckload quantities, document honestly, and route to multiple buyers.
How to Buy Used Industrial Packaging (Without Getting Burned)
A practical buyer's playbook for sourcing used pallets, gaylords, IBC totes, drums, and bulk bags — defining the right grade, hitting truckload minimums, pricing landed cost, and verifying condition before you pay.
What Is an SDS Sheet? Why Buyers of Used Totes & Drums Ask for One
An SDS (Safety Data Sheet) is the 16-section hazard document behind every chemical product. Here's why reconditioners ask for it before quoting your used IBC totes and drums, where to find one, and what happens to your offer without it.
Pallet Recycling: The Complete Guide (How, Where & What You'll Get Paid)
Can pallets go in a dumpster? Usually not. How pallet recycling works, what recyclers pay by grade, when pickup is free and what to do with CHEP, PECO and plastic pallets.
What is Reusable Transport Packaging
Reusable transport packaging consists of durable, multi-use containers designed to move products efficiently through supply chains. These include pallets, crates, bins, totes, intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), reusable plastic containers (RPCs), and other handling systems built for repeated use.
How to Start A Pallet Recycling Business: Wooden Waste into Cash
Whether you're running a small recycling operation out of your backyard or trying to expand your new pallet manufacturing business, this guide will help you grow step by step.
What to Expect in a Corporate Waste Audit for Industrial Packaging
A corporate waste audit is an essential process for companies aiming to understand and manage their waste streams effectively. When dealing with industrial packaging, including pallets, cardboard bales, Gaylord boxes, IBC totes, and other materials, a waste audit provides insights that can help reduce waste, improve recycling efforts, and optimize costs. Here's a breakdown of what typically goes into a corporate waste audit focused on these materials.