Gaylords in Devens, Massachusetts

A campus built for manufacturing

Devens covers 4,400 acres of former Army base, managed by MassDevelopment. In 2016 Bristol-Myers Squibb expected its Devens jobs to grow from 400 to 750 after a 250 million dollar biologics expansion, and in November 2020 King Street Properties announced a 500 million dollar, five-building biomanufacturing campus on 45 acres. The company names are context only: they show the kind of site this is, not who ships to us.

That scale means receiving docks that run on schedule, with pallets of components and supplies arriving in corrugated bulk boxes. Their outer packaging is clean, dry and mostly single trip. What goes to a recycler or a buyer is the shipping layer, never the process layer.

The line facilities staff draw

Facilities and EHS teams are the audience for this page, and they will want the boundary stated: we take non-regulated corrugated only. Anything contaminated, hazardous or medical stays with a licensed handler. Outer gaylords that never crossed into a controlled area are plain boxes. Clear this with your own EHS lead first; this site is not regulatory advice.

The waste ban is why the question comes up at all. Massachusetts lists recyclable paper, cardboard and paperboard among the materials banned from disposal, and RecyclingWorks points businesses to compactors, balers and haulers that can see what goes in the container.

Reaching Devens

Devens sits on the western edge of the I-495 belt, reached from the highway and by Route 2 and Route 110. It is farther from Boston than most pages on this site, which is why a recycle request here should state a count and a schedule. A regular, predictable pickup is easier to plan than an irregular one.

Send a recycle request when boxes are worn, and a sell request when they are sound. In either case, state the footprint, the count and the schedule, and tell us the boxes are non-regulated outer corrugated.

Devens tenants run on documented procedures, and empties follow the same habit. State where in the facility the boxes are staged, what they held on the way in, and who on the staff can release them. The best requests from a campus like this are short, precise and consistent from week to week.

Close by on the chart: Marlborough, Lowell, and Framingham.