Repackify field manual
Used packaging, explained by the people who haul it.
Pulling the guides from the file…
Repackify field manual
Pulling the guides from the file…
Field manual · Archive · 74 guides · page 2 of 5
A standard bulk bag is 35" × 35" × 40" and holds 28 cubic feet at a 2,200 lb safe working load. Full FIBC size chart with capacities, weights, pallet fit, and how to size a bag from your material density.
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.
A component-by-component inspection guide for used IBC totes — what to check on the bottle, cage, valve, fittings, and UN markings, and the red flags that should end a deal.
Packaging is light and bulky, so a trailer almost always cubes out before it weighs out. Learn how to win the floor, stack flats densely, secure the load, and describe freight accurately so you don't get reclassed.
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 store wooden pallets so they stay dry, hold their grade, and don't become a fire or tip-over hazard — covering indoor vs. outdoor storage, stack height, idle-pallet fire load, and FIFO rotation.
Wall count is the spec that sets a Gaylord box's strength and price — not its footprint. This guide compares 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-wall bulk boxes: stacking strength, typical loads, and which to buy.
How a used IBC tote was processed — reconditioned, rebottled, washed, or sold as-is — sets both its price and what you can safely put in it. Compare the grades and pick the right one.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Before you reuse a used IBC tote, identify the prior contents, clean it to the right level, and inspect the bottle, cage, pallet, and valve. A practical, safety-first checklist for operators.
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.
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.
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.
Wood and plastic pallets follow completely different recycling paths. Here is how each is repaired, reused, and recovered at end of life — and which to choose if closed-loop recyclability is your priority.
Food-grade describes materials safe for direct food contact. For used totes, drums, and boxes, that status depends entirely on documented prior contents, proper reconditioning, and paperwork — never on appearance.
ISPM-15 governs the wood pallets and crates used in international trade. Here's what the standard requires, how to read the IPPC mark, and when a domestic shipment is exempt.
Decode the UN marking stamped on an IBC tote — the UN symbol, the IBC code (like 31HA1), packing group, gross mass, test pressure, year, and retest dates — and learn when it actually matters.