One yard.
Six services.
Zero phone calls.
The work of keeping IBC totes in service breaks into six categories. We do all six because they all feed each other — and because doing any one in isolation leaves totes stranded.
Buy From Us
Inventory you can inspect. Photos of actual units. Freight quoted up front.
Sell To Us
Paid pickup starting at 12 totes. We route loads together to make small volumes work.
Reconditioning
Hot-wash, re-valve, batch certify. Food-grade route with traceable wash records.
Transportation
Owned trailers + vetted partners. Pallet-stacked, strapped, quoted by load.
Recycling
End-of-life HDPE granulation + steel scrap recovery. Per-load chain of custody.
Custom Fabrication
Cut-top, raised-bed, rain-catch, aquaponics cascade builds. We've done most of them.
The closed loop, in practice.
Buying and selling are the obvious ones. Reconditioning is what lets us sell at grade. Transportation is what lets us serve customers whose volumes don't justify a national dealer's minimums. Recycling is the floor — what happens when the tote genuinely cannot be saved. Fabrication is what we do with the totes that have a second use that isn't bulk liquid storage. Each service only works because the others exist.
Volume, turnaround, geography — at a glance.
| Service | Min volume | Typical turnaround | Geography | Quote SLA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buy from us | 1 tote | 3–7 business days delivered | Lower 48 | Same day |
| Sell to us | 12 totes | 5–14 days to pickup window | 9-state core + corridor routing | Within 1 business day |
| Reconditioning | 20 totes per batch | 4–9 business days dock-to-dock | Pickup in 9 states, ship-in from anywhere | Same day for standard wash |
| Transportation | 1 pallet LTL / 1 full truck | 2–5 business days line-haul | Weekly: MO, KS, IA, AR, IL, KY, OK, NE, TN | Within 1 business day |
| Recycling | 1 truckload (or piggybacked) | 10–21 days to disposition record | Anywhere if routed with other work | Within 1 business day |
| Custom fabrication | 1 unit | 1–3 weeks depending on complexity | Pickup MO / freight nationwide | Within 2 business days |
What "email-first" actually commits us to.
We staff the inbox like a dispatch desk. If you write at 7:42 a.m. CT on a Tuesday, you usually have a real reply with numbers before lunch. If you write at 11 p.m. on Saturday, you have it Monday morning. We don't use chatbots. There is no "your ticket has been assigned to" auto-reply. A person opens it, reads it, and answers.
Most jobs are two or three services at once.
Sell + recycle
You have 40 totes — 28 are saleable, 12 are blown out. We pay you for the 28, take the 12 for recycling, send one truck, deliver one disposition record. Sell to us →
Buy + freight
You need 18 reconditioned food-grade totes in Tulsa. We quote totes plus freight as a single landed number, ship on an owned trailer. Buy from us →
Recondition + return
You own 80 totes that need a hot-wash and valve swap between SKUs. We pick up, wash by lot, and return on a dock-to-dock schedule. Reconditioning →
Buy + fabricate
Community garden in Kansas City wants 24 raised beds. We grade twelve totes, cut to spec, deliver finished beds on a flatbed. Custom fab →
Recycle + paperwork
Your sustainability lead needs end-of-life proof for 60 retired totes. We haul, separate cage from shell, document, and email the chain-of-custody packet. Recycling →
Standing program
You generate 30–50 empties a quarter. We set a recurring pickup, recondition or recycle by grade, send a single invoice and a single quarterly impact report. Set it up →
Service mix by customer type.
| Customer type | Buy | Sell | Recondition | Freight | Recycle | Fabricate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Co-packer / contract bottler | Often | Sometimes | Heavy | Often | Sometimes | Rare |
| Liquid fertilizer / ag retail | Heavy | Heavy | Sometimes | Heavy | Sometimes | Rare |
| Industrial chemical user | Sometimes | Heavy | Rare | Often | Heavy | Never |
| Brewery / distillery | Often | Sometimes | Often | Often | Rare | Sometimes |
| Municipal / utility | Sometimes | Rare | Rare | Sometimes | Often | Sometimes |
| Farm / homestead / community garden | Heavy | Rare | Never | Sometimes | Never | Heavy |
| School / nonprofit | Often | Rare | Rare | Sometimes | Rare | Heavy |
Numbers that go in the ESG report.
A 275-gallon composite IBC contains roughly 55 lb of HDPE in the bottle, 65 lb of steel in the cage, and 35 lb of wood or plastic in the pallet. Every tote we keep in service for one more cycle is roughly 155 lb of material that didn't need to be manufactured this quarter.
For customers tracking Scope 3 emissions, we provide per-load impact estimates — lb of HDPE diverted, lb of steel recovered, approximate kg CO2e avoided versus virgin-material baseline. Methodology is documented and ours to share.
What a single reused tote saves.
- HDPE diverted
- ~55 lb
- Steel diverted
- ~65 lb
- Virgin-plastic avoided
- ~55 lb feedstock equivalent
- CO2e vs new
- ~110–140 kg per reuse cycle
- Water vs new mfg
- ~25 gal saved
Pre-built service combinations.
Empty-out program.
You generate 20–40 used totes a month. We schedule pickup every 4 weeks, you get one invoice and one chain-of-custody packet. Covers selling, freight, and any necessary recycling.
Fleet refresh.
You own 100+ totes. Every 18–24 months we pick them up by lot, recondition or replace at grade, return on a published schedule. Reconditioning + freight.
Landed delivery.
You buy a partial- or full-truckload of totes from us. Single landed price — tote + freight. No reweigh fees, no fuel-surcharge surprises. Buying + freight.
Garden-build kit.
Community garden or school project. We grade, cut, finish, and deliver finished raised beds, rain catchers, or aquaponics builds. Fabrication + freight.
Services FAQ.
Can I get a quote that combines two or three services?
Do you have minimum order sizes?
What if I'm outside your nine-state core?
Do you keep an inventory list online?
How do you handle payment?
Do you do residential delivery?
Will you talk to me on the phone?
Describe the situation. We'll sort it.
Send a paragraph and a photo or two. We'll tell you which of the six (or which combination) actually fits — even if the answer is "you don't need us, here's who you should call instead."