The whole
reclaim
loop.
Pick a service in the form and we will route it straight to the right bench — the wash line, the rebottling bench, fabrication or dispatch.
Eight services, one building, one set of paperwork. We buy empties nationwide, wash and recondition them, rebottle the ones that cannot be washed, fabricate second lives out of the ones that cannot be rebottled, recycle what is genuinely finished, and haul all of it. Run as a standing programme it becomes closed-loop reverse logistics with a diversion report attached.
Why the loop has to be in one place
Most of the industry splits this up. A broker sells you totes. A different company washes them. A third hauls them. A fourth takes the dead ones for scrap. Every handoff adds a truck, a margin and an opportunity for a container to become somebody's inconvenience and therefore somebody's landfill.
Putting the grading pad, the wash line, the rebottling bench, the fabrication shop and the regrind bunker inside one fence removes those handoffs. A container that arrives at our gate is assessed once and routed once. That is how the diversion rate gets to 93% — not through effort, through geometry.
Every service
Each page explains the process properly — what it costs, how long it takes and when it is the wrong choice.
Sell Your IBC Totes
We buy empties nationwide
Open 02Recycling & Reprocessing
HDPE regrind, steel, pallets
Open 03Washing & Reconditioning
Triple-rinse to caustic CIP
Open 04Rebottling
New bladder, reclaimed frame
Open 05Freight & Transport
LTL, truckload, backhaul
Open 06Fleet Buyback Programs
Standing reverse logistics
Open 07Custom Fabrication
Manifolds, stands, cut-tops
Open 08Leasing & Pooling
Rent instead of buy
OpenThree ways to work with us
- Transactional. You buy totes, or you sell them. One quote, one truck, done. Most customers start here.
- Standing buyback. We collect your empties on a schedule and pay you per unit at a published grade price. No procurement cycle, no disposal line item.
- Closed loop. We supply reconditioned units, collect them at end of fill, wash or rebottle, and return them to you. You never buy a container again; you pay per turn. Includes a quarterly diversion statement.
What a diversion statement contains
- Units received, by grade, by month
- Units returned to service vs. rebottled vs. fabricated vs. regrind
- Pounds of HDPE kept in service
- Pounds of steel recovered
- Estimated CO₂e avoided, with the method shown
- Landfill tonnage: zero, and the audit trail that proves it
Service questions
Can you do all of this for one customer, as one programme?
That is the point of running them in one building. A typical fleet programme looks like this: we deliver reconditioned units on a standing schedule, collect the empties on the same truck, wash what can be washed, rebottle what cannot, scrap what is dead, and invoice you the net. You get one counterparty, one set of paperwork and a diversion report you can put in a sustainability filing.
Do you charge for pickup of empties?
It depends on count, grade and distance. Twenty or more sellable units within about 400 miles of St. Louis and we normally cover the freight and pay you for the containers. Small counts of low-grade or chemical-history units can cost you money to move, and we will tell you the net number before a truck is booked rather than after.
How fast is turnaround on a wash-and-return?
Five to eight business days door to door for a Midwest round trip, of which the wash line itself is under 48 hours. Oil residues add two or three days. If you need a guaranteed window for a seasonal peak, a standing programme reserves line capacity in advance.
What do you not do?
We are not a hazardous waste disposal company and we do not accept listed hazardous waste, unrinsed pesticide containers, radioactives or anything requiring a manifest we are not permitted for. We are also not a carrier — we broker and arrange freight but we do not assume carrier liability. If your material needs a licensed TSDF, we will say so and point you at one.
All eight services, priced and timed
| Service | Price | Lead time | Minimum | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buyback — sell us your totes | We pay $6 – $95 per unit | Collection within 1 – 3 weeks | None at will-call; 20 for free freight | Anyone with empties accumulating |
| Washing and reconditioning | $28 – $65 per unit | 5 – 8 business days round trip | 12 units | Fleet owners, seasonal peaks |
| Rebottling | $185 – $215 per unit | 10 – 15 business days | 12 units | Anyone owning sound cages with dead bottles |
| Recycling and reprocessing | We pay $6 – $12, or net-zero pickup | 1 – 3 weeks | ≈30 for a paid pickup | Yards full of genuinely finished units |
| Freight and transport | $18 – $240 per unit by quantity | 1 – 5 business days transit | None | Everyone — it is half the delivered cost |
| Fleet buyback programme | Locked grade schedule, 12 months | 2 – 3 days to draft | ≈20 units/month/site | Continuous generators |
| Custom fabrication | $32 – $520 per operation | 1 – 14 business days | None | Anyone with a problem rather than a product |
| Leasing and pooling | $34 – $84 per turn, or $14 – $38/month | 2 – 4 weeks to set up | 24 units, 8 weeks | Seasonal demand, high turn rates |
Every one of these runs inside one fence at Page Industrial Boulevard. That is not a boast about scale — it is the mechanical reason our diversion rate is 93% rather than an effort of will. Each handoff between companies adds a truck, a margin and a chance for a container to become somebody's inconvenience and therefore somebody's landfill.
Three ways to work with us, and how to choose
| Transactional | Standing buyback | Closed loop | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | You buy, or you sell. One quote, one truck | We collect your empties on a schedule at agreed prices | We supply, you fill, we collect, wash and return |
| You pay | Per unit | Nothing — we pay you | Per turn |
| Capital cost | Full purchase price | None | None |
| Storage burden | Yours | Removed | Removed |
| Disposal cost | Yours at end of life | Becomes revenue | Does not arise |
| Price certainty | Per quote, 14 days | Locked 12 months, ±15% index | Locked 12 months |
| Freight | Quoted | Free on backhaul at 20+ | Included in the turn price |
| Diversion reporting | On request | Quarterly statement | Quarterly statement |
| Minimum | None | ≈20 units/month/site | 24 units, 8 weeks |
| Best for | First orders, one-off projects | Plants where empties accumulate | Seasonal or high-turn demand |
The number that decides between them
Turns per year — measured, not intended. At four or more turns a year over a three-year horizon, owning wins decisively. At one seasonal eleven-week block a year, leasing wins decisively, because the purchase also buys you nine months of storage you did not want.
Across our first year of closed-loop programmes, actual turns came in at roughly 60 to 70% of customer forecast — not dishonestly, but because people count intentions rather than history. So new programmes now start with a three-month measured period at a transitional rate, and two of our first-year customers moved to outright purchase as a result. Both are still customers.
What a quarterly diversion statement contains
Written to be quoted directly in a corporate sustainability disclosure, scoped to your own serial numbers.
- Units received, by grade, by month, against your own serial numbers.
- Disposition split: returned to service, rebottled, fabricated, regrind.
- Pounds of HDPE kept in service.
- Pounds of galvanised steel recovered, cage and pallet separately.
- Estimated CO₂e avoided, with the calculation method and the stated range — not a point estimate.
- Process water saved against a single-pass wash counterfactual.
- Landfill tonnage: zero, with the auditable basis.
What we will not put in it
- A carbon-neutrality claim. We run forklifts, a boiler and trucks. We avoid considerably more than we emit, which is a different sentence.
- Purchased offsets of any kind.
- Freight emissions, inbound or outbound — they depend entirely on where you are and would make the figure less comparable rather than more.
- A CO₂e point estimate without its range. Substitution rate is the biggest assumption in the whole calculation and we publish the sensitivity table.
What we do not do, and where to go instead
| Request | Our position | Where to go |
|---|---|---|
| Listed hazardous waste disposal | We are not a permitted TSDF and will not accept it | A licensed treatment, storage and disposal facility |
| Unrinsed pesticide or herbicide containers | Refused at the gate | Your state agricultural container recycling programme |
| Radioactive, infectious or explosive residues | Refused | A specialist licensed handler |
| Containers with more than a trace heel | Refused — that is a waste shipment, not a container shipment | Drain it first, or use a waste contractor |
| Carrier liability on freight | We broker and load; we are not a carrier | The carrier, via a freight claim on the delivery receipt |
| ASME-coded pressure vessels | Different object entirely | A coded vessel fabricator |
| New tote manufacture | We buy in and resell | Direct from a manufacturer, or through us |
| NSF listing on a reconditioned unit | Not available from anyone | New units, if a listing is genuinely required |
Detailed questions
Can I use several services on one agreement?
That is the point of running them in one building. A typical fleet programme delivers reconditioned units on a schedule, collects the empties on the same truck, washes what can be washed, rebottles what cannot, scraps what is dead, and invoices you the net. One counterparty, one set of paperwork, one diversion report.
Do I need a programme, or can I just buy?
Most customers start transactional and should. A programme makes sense when empties are accumulating faster than anyone wants to deal with — roughly twenty units a month at a single site — or when demand is seasonal enough that owning for peak means owning idle containers for nine months.
How fast can a programme be set up?
Two to three business days to draft, because we route the collection schedule before we price it. Four to six weeks to be fully running, mostly waiting on your own procurement onboarding rather than on us. Transactional orders quote the same business day.
Who do I actually deal with?
A grader or the operations lead, not a call centre. There are eleven people in the office and all of them have spent time on the grading pad, which is the only reason the quotes are any good. It is also why a reply sometimes takes until the end of the day and usually contains a number.
Can you work to our purchase order system and supplier onboarding?
Yes, routinely. Net 30 on credit approval, consolidated multi-site invoicing, your PO numbering, your onboarding paperwork, and our published grade standard for your spec documents. Plenty of our customers are procurement-driven operations and the process is familiar.
Do you subcontract any of this?
Freight only — we broker and route it, load it and brace it, but we do not own trucks because owning trucks is a different business. Every container is physically graded on our own pad, and the wash line, rebottling bench, fabrication shop and regrind bunker are all ours.
What happens if a programme is not working?
Twelve-month term with a sixty-day exit, and we will tell you when the structure is wrong before you do. Two of our first-year closed-loop customers were better off buying outright once we had three months of real turn data, and saying so cost us revenue and kept the accounts.
Is there a service you wish more customers used?
Rebottling your own cages. It is $185 to $215 a unit, below the price of buying a used Grade A unit outright, gets you a never-filled bottle, and keeps your own steel in service. Most operations with a tote fleet own sound cages with dead bottles and have never been offered the option.
One form, any service
Buying, selling, washing, hauling or scrapping — the service dropdown routes it to the right bench.