Services · programme
Stop buying boxes. Start circulating them.
- Suits
- 300+ boxes a month
- Commitment
- 12 months, 30-day exit
- Usual outcome
- Net credit
Scope a programme
Sites, monthly volumes in and out, and the footprints you use. We will model the loop and tell you if it beats buying outright.
Answer first
The truck is already going. Use both directions.
A conventional arrangement sends a truck to deliver boxes, then sends another later to take empties away. Two lanes, two invoices, two sets of emissions, and a bay full of empties in between.
A managed programme collapses that into one scheduled visit: empties out, graded stock in, consolidated freight, one settlement. The operational benefit is that nobody at your site has to think about packaging again. The commercial benefit is that the value of what leaves offsets most or all of what arrives.
- Instead of two
- 1 visit
- Collection and delivery consolidated onto one truck.
- Typical freight saving
- ≈ 40%
- Against separate buy-and-haul arrangements.
- Diversion reporting
- Quarterly
- Auditable, free, and formatted for ESG teams.
- Exit notice
- 30 days
- No lock-in. The economics should hold it together.
Structure
What a programme includes.
| Component | What it means | Frequency | Who does it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduled collection | A booked slot for empties, with counts agreed on site | Weekly to monthly | ReGaylord equipment and crew |
| Matched supply | Graded stock in the footprints and grades you run | Same visit | Held against your schedule |
| Reserved inventory | Stock held for you rather than sold to the floor | Continuous | ReGaylord yard |
| Consolidated freight | One movement, both directions, one bill | Per visit | ReGaylord |
| Reconditioning | Your repairable boxes fixed rather than baled | As needed | Our bench |
| Quarterly diversion report | Units, tons, CO₂e, factor set and method | Quarterly | ReGaylord, free |
| Annual review | Volumes, footprints and grades re-based on what actually happened | Annually | Both parties |
Setup
Four weeks from first conversation to first collection.
- 01
Baseline
What you buy, what you throw away, and what it currently costs across every site. Usually the first time anyone has added it up.
- 02
Model the loop
Which sites generate, which consume, what the balance is, and whether the programme genuinely beats buying outright. Sometimes it does not, and we say so.
- 03
Pilot one site
A single site for a quarter before anything is rolled out. Real numbers beat a projection every time.
- 04
Roll out and report
Schedule across sites, consolidated invoicing and the first quarterly diversion statement fifteen days after quarter end.
Questions
The programme, answered.
Who is this for?
Is there a contract?
What does it cost?
Can you supply multiple sites from one agreement?
Is it for you?
Six tests. Three yeses and it usually pays.
We would rather talk somebody out of a programme than run one that does not beat ordinary buying and selling.
- 01
Do you move more than 300 containers a month?
Below that, ordinary buying and selling is simpler and costs you less. The scheduling overhead of a programme needs volume to earn its place.
- 02
Do you both generate and consume packaging?
Even in different buildings. The whole efficiency comes from one truck doing both directions; if you only consume, a standing order is the better answer.
- 03
Do you have more than one site?
Sites that generate can feed sites that consume. Balancing across an estate is where the biggest savings appear.
- 04
Is availability ever a problem for you?
If you have ever been short of a footprint in January, reserved inventory is worth more to you than the price difference.
- 05
Does anyone ask you for diversion data?
The quarterly statement is included and free. If nobody asks, this is worth less to you.
- 06
Is packaging currently somebody's annoying side task?
The strongest practical argument for a programme is that nobody at your site has to think about boxes again.
Governance
What is actually written down.
A programme is a schedule and a set of commitments, not a lock-in. Thirty days' notice either way, and the economics are expected to hold it together.
- Term
- Twelve months with thirty days' exit notice. We have never contested one.
- Volumes
- A forecast, not a commitment. Reserved inventory is held against it and re-based annually against what actually happened.
- Pricing
- Fixed per footprint and grade for the term, with an agreed mechanism if the OCC index moves more than a stated band.
- Schedule
- Named collection and delivery days. Changes need a week's notice on either side.
- Quality
- Our published grading standard, with the same 48-hour claims window as every other order.
- Reporting
- Quarterly diversion statement within fifteen days of quarter end, free, in PDF or CSV.
- Escalation
- A named buyer and a named operations contact on our side. Not a queue.
- Review
- Annual, covering volumes, footprints, grades and whether the programme still beats the alternative.
A worked programme
Three sites, twelve months, real shape.
Anonymised from a current account. The pattern — one generating site funding two consuming sites — is the most common arrangement we run.
| Site | Role | Containers out | Containers in | Net position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distribution centre | Generator | 6,200 | 400 | Credit |
| Processing plant A | Consumer | 900 | 4,100 | Charge |
| Processing plant B | Consumer | 600 | 2,800 | Charge |
| Programme total | Balanced | 7,700 | 7,300 | Small net credit |
| Freight movements | Consolidated | — | — | ≈ 40% fewer than separate arrangements |
| Diversion reported | — | — | — | 92 tons, quarterly statements |
Start with one site and a quarter.
Pilot it, measure it, and roll it out only if the numbers hold. That is how every programme we run began.