Sell Your Flattened Gaylord Totes and Shipping Boxes
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Inquire
Fill out the form and we'll contact you to review your commodities together.
Review
We'll determine if samples are needed, otherwise providing you an immediate offer.
Launch
Implement the program, pickup your boxes, and get paid!
Why Sell to UCB?
Make more money than recycling or landfilling
Reuse is easier than recycling
Safer to process (no heavy machinery)
Better for the environment
Easy to implement
Real-time online tracking and reporting
Industry experts who help with everything
It’s just the right thing to do
Why UCB?
National Reach able to service anywhere in North America
Pay More because we have the largest customer base
Consultative Approach to help you make the most money off of your gaylord totes and shipping boxes
Advanced Box Reuse Technology to automatically match your gaylord totes and shipping boxes to motivated buyers
What does a reuse program look like?
Stack and load your boxes in trailer
When full, click a button online
Automatically notified, trailer gets picked up
UCB processes your load, you get paid!
We then look for more opportunities for reuse
How to make the most money
Box type and location matter! – Certain boxes hold more value based on size, strength, and location.
Keep boxes clean and undamaged – Avoid tearing, crushing, or excessive markings when unpacking.
Sort and stack by type – Flatten and uniformly stack to 52" tall, tightly strapped for stability.
Optimize trailer space – Maximize the number of boxes while ensuring safe loading.
Reduce handling needs – Minimize restacking or reprocessing to get top value.
Save on logistics costs – Live load pickups eliminate the need for costly drop trailers, improving your overall profitability.
- Logistics Support
- No space to store boxes? No problem! We offer hassle-free logistics solutions to keep your operation running smoothly:
- Live Load – We arrive, load, and haul away immediately—no storage needed.
- Storage Trailer – Keep a non-roadworthy trailer on-site for loading at your convenience, cross docked on a live load pickup once full.
- Hook-and-Swap Trailer – Get an empty trailer dropped while we pick up a full one, ensuring seamless operations.
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- Training and Labor Support
- Can't get the boxes ready for sale yourself? No problem! We offer flexible solutions to ensure your boxes meet top value standards:
- Expert Training – Our team will train your staff on best practices for sorting, stacking, and prepping boxes.
- Off-Site Processing – Ship material to our facilities, and we’ll handle the reprocessing for you.
- On-Site Support – Need extra hands? We can provide trained staff to sort, stack, and prep boxes at your location.
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- Recycling Support
- Need help managing all your recyclables? No problem! We make recycling more convenient by consolidating multiple waste streams into a single pickup along with your gaylords and boxes — so you only need one dock door instead of multiple trailers.
- Pallets – Wooden and plastic pallets for reuse or recycling.
- Bulk Bags – Efficient removal of used FIBCs and super sacks.
- Cardboard Scrap (OCC) – Maximize returns on your excess corrugate.
- Plastics – From shrink wrap to rigid plastics, we’ll take care of it.
- Metals – Consolidate scrap metal for easy recycling.
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Fortune 100 Manufacturer
Best decision I ever made. More money, easier to process, no brainer.
Flavorings Packager
I've been selling boxes to UCB for years, and not once have they reduced our negotiated price. Meanwhile, recycling rates have tanked time and again. I can really appreciate the consistency of the reuse market.
Major CPG Manufacturer
By selling our unused boxes to UsedCardboardBoxes, we've turned potential waste into a revenue stream. Their process is streamlined, and pickups are always on schedule.
Food Processing Facility
Our facility generates a significant number of excess boxes, and working with UsedCardboardBoxes has been fantastic. They handle everything from pickup to payment swiftly and professionally.
Automotive Parts Supplier
Selling our surplus boxes to UsedCardboardBoxes has been a game changer. It’s efficient, aligns with our sustainability goals, and their team is incredibly easy to work with.
Regional Recycling Center
Partnering with UsedCardboardBoxes has allowed us to efficiently offload large quantities of sorted boxes, ensuring they're reused and contribute to circular economy initiatives.
Frequently asked questions
Got questions? We've got answers! In this section, we address the most common inquiries about our services.
Contact usIt depends on many factors from what they are, to where, to their quality. Inquire and we can talk it through.
Odds are, yes! We service everywhere in the United States and have processing facilities nationally. Or if you can get the boxes ready for sales directly at your location, we can pay even more and ship directly to customers.
Absolutely! We can consildate all of your recycling efforts into our trailers, if needed. Although, it's not as cost effective to do this.
We generally pay on monthly statements for recurring streams of boxes, on the 15th of every month for all gaylords and boxes received the month prior. However, in some cases we can pay on expedient terms when the situation calls for it.
The only fees we would ever assess would be fully disclosed up front. For example, if you get drop trailers, those might have a monthly rental charge. If you are having the gaylords or boxes hauled to a UCB facility for processing, the cost of the haul will either be itemized or worked into the rebate price.
Yes, we only work with 53' dry van trailer pickups, because the economics of picking up low volumes of boxes doesn't work (the trucks cost more than the boxes are worth). As such, we have to leverage economies of scale to make box reuse make sense, and thus the minimum of filling a full trailer.
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