Gaylords for seafood processing around Boston

The district

The Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park master plan keeps two-thirds of the Designated Port Area tideland in maritime industrial use, and its uses include seafood processing, waterborne cargo warehouses and motor freight. The chart lights Marine Park and the I-93 and I-90 channels for this page.

Two kinds of box

Seafood moves in waxed boxes built to resist water and ice. Those are not a Massachusetts waste ban material, and they are not reusable as gaylords either. Packaging supply and dry goods arrive in ordinary corrugated gaylords that stay dry in the receiving area, and those are normal reusable boxes.

How to sort

Keep two piles on the dock: waxed or wet, and dry. Send a sell request for the dry pile and describe the other in the message, so the reply can say what it is. Mention the Marine Park or the street and the door type.

Wet boxes and what to do about them

Seafood docks work with ice and water, and the boxes that come off them are often wet. Wet board is a recycling problem, not a reuse one, and the Massachusetts ban has its own rules for contaminated cardboard. Read the waxed and wet boxes page before sending a request, and say honestly how wet the stack is.

Dry boxes from the same dock

Processing docks also receive dry packaging: cartons for finished product, pallets of supplies, dry goods. Those boxes are clean and sound, and they are the ones to sell. Keep dry and wet stacks apart, count them separately and describe each in the request.

Seasons and species

Seafood volume follows landings, and landings follow species and weather. A dock that is slow in January may be at capacity in the summer. If your stack of empties changes with the catch, describe the range, not one number: "ten to forty a week depending on landings" is a perfectly usable answer.

Salt, ice and board

Salt air and melting ice soften corrugated faster than most people expect. A box that stood overnight in a cold room may look fine and still lose strength. When you describe seafood-dock boxes, mention how long they stood and in what conditions.