Gaylords for plastics and regrind around Boston
Plastics processors buy four- or five-wall gaylords on a 48 x 40 footprint, often octabins, for resin, regrind and molded parts. They are the heaviest buyers of used boxes on the chart.
Who buys and why
Resin, powders and regrind are dense and flowable, so makers recommend octagonal boxes for them; one lists its 46 x 38 x 36 octagon at 1,300 lb test with a 2,200 lb listed capacity. Processors in Lawrence, Woburn and Lowell buy dozens to truckloads at a time, and the chart lights the I-495 and I-93 channels where they sit.
The spec they ask for
A full flap bottom for loose goods, a partial flap bottom with a slip sheet for bagged goods, and a wall count of four or five. The Cary Company lists an octagon-bottom box rated 1300#/ECT-155 at about 22.9 lb, and weight matters when a plant moves hundreds.
Sending the request
A buy request with the footprint, wall count, bottom style and a date; mention whether regrind is fine or dusty, since fine material finds the gaps in a partial bottom.
Loads that act like liquids
Resin pellets and regrind flow, and a flowing load pushes outward on every wall. That is why plastics processors favor octabins and heavy wall counts, and why they want the bottom to be a full flap. If your plant is a buyer, say what the product is and how much a full box weighs. If your plant is a seller, say what the boxes carried, because a box that held a reactive or colored material is a different thing from one that held natural resin.
Both sides of the trade
A plastics processor is often both a buyer and a seller: it receives resin in gaylords and ships regrind in them. That makes a matched pair of requests possible, one for empties, one for boxes, and the reply can handle them together.
Colors and grades
Plastics processors care about contamination, and a box that carried one color of resin may not suit another without cleaning. If you are selling empties, name the resin or regrind they held. If you are buying boxes, say what you will put in them. A neat match in the request avoids a trip.
Static and dust
Fine regrind and powder leave a film on the inside of a box that is hard to see and hard to remove. If your boxes held dusty product, say so, and say whether they were lined.
Mention whether the boxes carried virgin resin or regrind; buyers distinguish.
Sources
Each read on November 11, 2026.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Roads | I-495 and I-93 |
| Districts | Lawrence and North Andover, Woburn, and Lowell |