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IBC totes in the Inland Empire, graded part by part

From Ontario docks to Coachella groves. Every tote is read by its parts before anyone names a price.

Drag to turn the tote. Pick a part to light it.

Run a hand down every bar and weld. Straight bars and sound welds mean the tote has a second life, even if the bottle does not.

01

The back wall

Eighteen mixed totes along a warehouse wall are not one pile. They are five piles, and the parts say which is which. Scroll and watch each tote get its hang tag.

REUSE REUSE REBOTTLE PARTS RECYCLE REUSE RECOND REBOTTLE REUSE PARTS RECYCLE RECOND REUSE REBOTTLE PARTS REUSE RECOND RECYCLE
6Reuse
3Rebottle
3Recondition
3Parts
3Recycle

A drawing of a sample wall, not a photograph and not a count of anyone's stock. See the tags on the grader page.

02

Grade the pile

Tap through cage, bottle, valve, base and last contents for one tote or a group of identical ones. Add the groups, read the counts by grade, and send them with your request.

The grader needs JavaScript. The checks it runs are written out on the grader page. Without it, email the grade, the size, how many and your ZIP code to the address in the footer.

04

Last contents first

Food history, chemical history and unknown history never mix. A tote that held a food ingredient can be a food-history tote if the paperwork says so. A tote that held a chemical stays in chemical service or goes to recycling. A tote nobody can name goes nowhere near a drip line.

The grader never clears a hazardous or unknown tote for food, water or animals. It tells you to find the SDS and check the permit and the carrier. Read what rinsed does and does not mean before you buy a washed tote for any new use.

The SDS

The safety data sheet for the last product. Buyers of used totes ask for it before reuse, and it is the first thing to find when the label is gone.

RCRA empty

For a tote over 119 gallons that held hazardous waste: pumped out with no more than one inch, or 0.3 percent of capacity by weight, left in the bottom. Acute waste needs a triple rinse. See the rule in plain words.

05

Dock door map

IBC totes graded part by part, from Ontario docks to Coachella groves: the warehouse belt from Ontario to Moreno Valley, the Temecula Valley, the Coachella Valley and the High Desert. Each place has its own page with what it ships and what it grows.

What happens after you send a request

Requests like these are usually matched to a grade first. No prices, minimums or timings are stated on any page, because none can be fixed until the totes have been described. If you would like to get ahead of that, run the grader first and paste the lot list into the message.

The rest of the site is reference: parts, guides, areas and industries you can read before you ask. Nothing on it is required to make a request.

Where to look first

Buyers can start with the grades, because the choice between rebottled, reconditioned, rinsed and new decides most of what follows. Sellers can start with the sell page, which explains how a lot is described, or with the pickup page, which explains how to get it ready. Growers will want the guides on drip irrigation and desert sun, and plants will want the food-grade history page.

Who this site is for

Plant managers, growers, building managers and contractors across Riverside and San Bernardino counties land here with the same object in front of them: a caged plastic tank on a pallet. The site explains how to read it, what it is worth to the next user and who can safely take it.

Three things the site will not do

It will not quote a price from a page, because a price needs a tote in front of someone. It will not promise a pickup date, because a date is not something a page can know. And it will not tell you that a tote of unknown history is safe for food or water, because nobody can know that from a photograph.

Quote request

Tell us what is on the wall

Counts by grade are enough to start.

Have ready

  • The grade, or your best guess: used, rinsed, dirty or damaged
  • Size if you know it: 275 or 330 gallon
  • How many, and what they last held
  • The ZIP code they sit in

Email works too: info@inlandempireibctotes.com. This site shows no phone number.

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