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Services · 02

Nine things we do
besides sell totes.

Buying and selling is the visible part of this business and the smaller part. Most of our volume is washing, testing, rebottling, hauling and recovering material for people who already own containers — plus buying the empties that would otherwise be a disposal cost.

Short answer

We buy empties and pay on pickup, wash and recondition on three chemistries, rebottle sound cages, recycle to regrind and baled steel, haul in 48 states, run a managed tote pool, UN-certify under our own reconditioner code, fabricate to drawing and decommission entire yards.
  • Toll washing: we process totes you own and send them back
  • Diversion certificates issued for ESG reporting
  • Free pickup above 24 units in our active lanes
  • UN re-marking in four days after test, not three weeks

Which service do you need?

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The nine

Pick the one that matches your problem

FILLSHIPEMPTYCOLLECTWASHTESTREGRADERESELLAVERAGE7.4×TURNS PER BOTTLE

How the nine fit together

Each service is one station on the same loop

These are not nine unrelated product lines. They are the stations a single container passes through, repeatedly, over a working life of about twenty-two fill cycles across three bottle generations.

A tote leaves a filler, we collect it, wash it, test it, regrade it and resell it. When the bottle finally ages out we rebottle the cage and the loop restarts. When the cage fails, recycling recovers both materials. Freight ties every station together, and pooling is simply the whole loop operated as a subscription instead of a purchase.

Owning every station is what lets us say nothing landfills — there is no point in the chain where we hand a problem to someone whose incentives differ from ours.

Walk the full lifecycle

Lead times

What each service actually takes

Published because 'call for lead time' wastes everyone's week. These are typical, not promises — a 400-unit reconditioning order books differently from four.

ServiceTypical turnaroundWhat drives it
Buying your emptiesBid same business day; pickup 2 – 7 daysLane density and whether a manifest is needed
Reconditioning / toll wash5 – 9 business daysChemistry required and wash-line queue
Rebottling7 – 12 business daysBottle stock in your resin and colour
Recycling intakeImmediate; certificate in 5 daysWeigh tickets and granulation scheduling
Freight booking1 – 3 business days to dispatchLane, equipment type and dock constraints
Pool onboarding2 – 3 weeksAsset tagging and float build
UN testing & re-marking4 business days after testTest bay queue only
Custom fabrication2 – 4 weeksDrawing complexity and material lead time
Site decommissioning1 – 3 weeks from surveyVolume, access and mix of condition

Most-requested services

What each service needs from you

The information that makes a service quote fast

Nearly every delay on a service quote is a missing fact rather than a busy queue. This is what each desk actually needs in the first message.

Information required per service
ServiceMust haveHelpfulBlocks the quote if missing
Buying your emptiesUnit count, prior contents, postcodePhotographs, condition splitHazmat without a manifest
Washing & reconditioningPrior contents, unit countTarget grade, gasket compoundUnidentifiable residue
RebottlingCage photographs, unit countResin preference, manufacturerNothing — we assess on arrival
RecyclingUnit count, rough conditionPrior contents by batchHazmat without a manifest
FreightOrigin, destination, unit countDock, forklift, access, surfaceNothing, but expect follow-up
Tote poolingAnnual turns, destination countCurrent fleet size and attritionNothing
UN testing & certificationMarking strings or plate photosFleet list with moulding datesIllegible plates
Custom fabricationWhat the item must doDimensions, liquid, handling methodNothing — describe the job
Site decommissioningRough count, postcode, two photosDeadline, access, known contentsUndrained containers

The right-hand column is short on purpose. Almost nothing genuinely blocks a quote except undocumented hazardous residue and containers that still hold product — and both of those are regulatory limits rather than preferences.

How services are priced

Four different pricing structures, and why

Not everything here is priced per unit, and knowing which structure applies makes a quote much easier to read.

Pricing structure by service
StructureServicesDriven byWhere it bites
Per unitReconditioning, rebottling, certificationLabour and consumables per containerSmall batches carry setup cost
Per loadFreight, collection, decommissioning haulageEquipment and distancePart loads are disproportionately expensive
By weightRecycling, scrap purchasePrevailing regrind and mill marketsQuoted on the day, not from a sheet
Per turnTote poolingCycle count, not container countLow utilisation makes it look expensive

Short answer

If a quote looks expensive, check which structure it is on. A per-load service quoted for six units looks terrible and is simply the wrong batch size for that structure.
  • Per-unit services get cheaper with batch size
  • Per-load services get cheaper with fill rate, not distance
  • Weight-based prices move weekly — ask on the day
  • Per-turn pricing rewards utilisation, not ownership

From the Yard Journal

Longer pieces from the people who run the wash line, the test bay and the trading desk.

Next move

Not sure which service covers your situation?

Describe the problem rather than the service. 'Two hundred totes behind the building, some cracked, nobody knows what was in forty of them' is a decommissioning job, and we have heard it before.

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