What is
on the
yard.
Tell us the product type and quantity and we will reply with current counts, grade photographs and a delivered price.
Nine standing categories, led by used 275 and 330 gallon poly IBC totes in four grades. Everything is graded by hand before it is listed, photographed before it is quoted, and sold against a published standard rather than an adjective. Counts move weekly — ask and we will send what is physically staged today.
How the yard is organised
Intake comes off the trailer onto the grading pad, where prior contents are read off the data plate and recorded before anything moves. From there a unit takes one of four routes: straight to the wash line, to the rebottling bench, to fabrication, or to the regrind bunker. What ends up in sellable inventory is only ever what came out the far end of one of those routes.
The practical consequence is that our categories are process outcomes, not marketing tiers. A “rebottled” tote is not a nicer used tote; it is a different object with a new bladder in an old frame. A “cage only” lot is not a discount tote; it is the steel that survived when a bottle failed its air-hold test.
What we will not sell you
A bottle with no data plate into food service. A chemical-history tote into potable water. A cracked bottle as anything but scrap. A unit we have not pressure tested as Grade A. We would rather lose the order than put a container somewhere it will fail, because in this trade failure is a spill.
If what you want is one of those things, we will explain why and quote the thing that actually works — usually a rebottled unit.
Fastest movers
- 275 gal technical
- Always in stock, hundreds deep
- 275 gal food grade
- Steady, but allocate early
- 330 gal any grade
- Scarcer; roughly 1 in 6 of intake
- Stainless IBC
- Intermittent; we hold wants lists
- Cage only
- Cheapest line on the yard
Documentation available
- ✿ Prior-contents record
- ✿ Wash certificate with cycle data
- ✿ Air-hold pressure test result
- ✿ Data plate photographs
- ✿ UN marking transcription
Every category
Each page carries real specification detail, honest price bands and the grade rules that apply.
Used IBC Totes
Grade A through scrap
Open 02Rebottled IBC Totes
New bottle, reclaimed cage
Open 03Food Grade Totes
Single-trip edible service
Open 04New IBC Totes
When reuse is not permitted
Open 05Stainless Steel IBCs
304 / 316L bulk tanks
Open 06Poly Drums & Barrels
15 – 55 gallon reclaim
Open 07Accessories & Parts
Valves, adapters, lids, cages
Open 08Upcycled Builds
Finished second-life products
OpenInventory questions
How often does stock turn?
Weekly. A typical week brings in 400–900 containers and ships out a similar number, so any count we publish is stale within days. That is why we quote against staged pallets and send photographs rather than maintain a live catalogue — a number on a web page that turns out to be wrong costs you more than a one-day wait for a real one.
Can I mix grades on one order?
Yes, and most buyers should. If you need four food-grade totes for product and twenty technical-grade units for wash water and ballast, buying all twenty-four at food-grade price is simply burning money. Mixed pallets ship on the same truck at no extra handling charge.
Do you sell single units or only pallets?
Single units, always. One tote ships LTL on its own pallet. The per-unit freight is high, so if you can wait and consolidate, do — but we will never refuse a one-unit order.
What if you do not have what I need?
We will tell you, and we will tell you when we expect it. Standing wants are logged against incoming loads, so if you need eight 330 gallon food-grade units we will flag them at intake and hold them for you rather than letting them go to the first buyer.
Everything on the yard, in one table
Standing categories with price bands, availability and what each one is actually for. Counts move weekly; categories do not.
| Category | Format | Price band | Availability | Correct for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technical grade tote | 275 / 330 gal | $95 – $175 | Hundreds deep | Water, ballast, dust control, wash water, fabrication |
| Grade A industrial | 275 / 330 gal | $155 – $265 | Always in stock | Fertiliser, glycol, industrial chemistry, anything you cannot lose |
| Food grade, certified | 275 / 330 gal | $225 – $395 | Steady; allocate 12+ | Edible product, potable water, sap, juice, brine |
| Rebottled | 275 / 330 gal | $340 – $490 | Built to order, 5–10 days | Potable reserve, aquaponics, no-fill-history requirements |
| New, UN rated | 275 / 330 gal | $520 – $690 | 3 – 7 days | Regulated transport, audit prohibitions on prior fills |
| Oversize | 400 / 450 / 550 gal | $340 – $610 | Intermittent | Single uninterrupted batch volume only |
| Stainless IBC | 350 – 550 gal | $1,400 – $3,200 | Wants list | Above 140 °F, solvents, chlorides, decades of cycling |
| Poly drums | 15 / 30 / 55 gal | $9 – $45 | Always in stock | Split volumes, no forklift, spaces a pallet will not fit |
| Cage only | 275 / 330 gal | $35 – $60 | Always in stock | Planters, shelving, cribs, trellises, barriers |
| Valves and adapters | 2 in buttress / S60x6 | $2 – $34 | Always in stock | Thread conversion, valve replacement, hose connection |
| Protection and conditioning | Sleeves, jackets, heaters | $14 – $340 | Always in stock | Outdoor service, temperature control, containment |
| Upcycled builds | Finished products | $420 – $1,340 | 3 – 14 days | Rain banks, aquaponics, brewers, wash stations, stands |
Price bands are ex-yard St. Louis at ten or more units and move with resin, scrap steel and diesel. Freight is quoted separately and is frequently the larger half of a small order — see the freight section below.
Why our categories are process outcomes, not marketing tiers
A reclaim yard cannot choose what arrives. Every category below is defined by which route a container took through the plant.
This is the thing that most distinguishes buying from a reclaim plant rather than a distributor. A distributor orders what customers want. We receive what somebody else bought four to eight years ago, in the proportions they bought it, and our categories are the outcomes of what we could then do with it.
The routing decision, in order
- Intake and de-label. Before a trailer is unloaded, each data plate is photographed and prior contents logged against the serial number. This happens first because everything downstream depends on provenance and provenance cannot be recovered later. No legible plate means no food-grade path, permanently.
- Grade on the pad. Twenty-seven inspection points by hand, about four minutes a unit. Bottle clarity and crazing, cage geometry and welds, valve seat and boss face, pallet integrity, plate legibility. The grade is assigned after the work, never before.
- Wash, or divert. Residue class decides the cycle — single pass for syrups and brines, long hot caustic with surfactant for oils, mechanical plus caustic for latex. Cured resins and polyurethanes are not washable and divert straight to rebottling or regrind.
- Pressure test and certify. Timed 3 psi air hold on everything that will be sold as Grade A or better. The result and duration are printed with the unit.
- Back to service. The best outcome and the most common one. Same object, new job, roughly 71 lb of CO₂e avoided against a new unit and essentially no new embodied energy spent.
- Rebottle. When the bottle is compromised and the frame is not. Cage inspected, jigged, blasted, zinc-recoated; new virgin bladder fitted. Roughly one cage in seven is rejected here and credited as steel.
- Fabricate. When the bottle cannot hold pressure but can still hold something. Cut-tops, planters, brewers, stands, frames. This step moves our reuse rate from the low eighties into the low nineties.
- Regrind. Only after a second grader answers no to four salvage questions. About 7% of intake, and 11% of that gets pulled back out at the second look.
Variation inside a category, and what it means for you
Within any grade, some things vary and some do not. Knowing which is which stops you paying for uniformity you cannot get or worrying about variation that does not matter.
| Attribute | Varies? | Matters? |
|---|---|---|
| Footprint — 48 × 40 in | Essentially never | No — this is why totes rack and truck so well |
| Four-way forklift entry | On all-plastic bases only | Yes, if your aisles are tight — specify it |
| Overall height | Up to 1 in by pallet type | Yes, under a fixed clearance or a gantry |
| Tare weight | 118 – 132 lb on a 275 | Only for freight and rack calculations |
| Outlet thread | Buttress or S60x6 | Yes — buy the right adapter before you need it |
| Valve brand and style | Freely | Only if you need a matched fleet; we sort for +$6/unit |
| Bottle wall thickness | 1.9 – 2.4 mm | No, within grade — all pass the same test |
| Bottle clarity and staining | Freely | No — cosmetic, and a real price lever in your favour |
| Cage coating condition | Freely | Only when it becomes corrosion, which takes years |
| Date code | 2008 to current | Weakly — it predicts UV exposure, nothing more |
| UN marking presence | Freely | Only if you ship regulated liquids on a public road |
| Pallet material | Steel, composite, plastic, timber | Yes for food use and for washdown environments |
Where the price lever is
Staining. A heavily dye-ghosted food-grade unit sits at the bottom of its band — around $225 rather than $340 — and the discolouration has no functional effect whatever. If you are buying for a tank nobody looks at, ask for the ugly ones. It is the single most reliable way to save money on this site and almost nobody asks.
Where uniformity is not available
Thirty visually identical units with matching date codes and matching cage coating. Used stock cannot do this and we will not pretend otherwise — that requirement is what new is for, and it is one of only four cases where new is genuinely the right answer.
How to order so the quote is right the first time
The four details that decide everything
What goes in it
The product, not the container spec. This sets the grade, and the grade sets the price band far more than negotiation does. Also flags compatibility: HDPE handles acids, alkalis, salts, alcohols and glycols well, and emphatically not aromatic or chlorinated solvents, ketones, strong oxidisers, or anything above 140 °F.
Quantity and cadence
Twelve units once is a different quote from twelve a month. Standing orders get yard-held stock and better freight. And tell us if the quantity could flex upward — ten units to twenty-four frequently costs barely more delivered.
Delivery postal code
Freight is often 20–40% of a used tote's delivered cost, so a ZIP changes the answer more than the grade does. Never compare ex-yard prices between suppliers; a tote $40 cheaper 800 miles away is $140 more expensive on arrival.
Unloading capability
Forklift, dock, pallet jack or nothing. A liftgate and a pallet jack on a residential or limited-access delivery can add $200 per stop, and we would rather that landed in the quote than on the invoice.
What comes back
A written quote with grade, quantity, unit price, freight line, lead time and photographs of the actual pallets. Prices hold fourteen days or until those specific units sell, whichever comes first — and we tell you which. There is no sales call, because we do not have a phone.
| What you are ordering | Lead time |
|---|---|
| Technical or Grade A, any quantity in stock | 2 – 5 business days |
| Food grade, under 12 units | 2 – 5 business days |
| Food grade, 12+ matched units | 1 – 3 weeks — allocate early |
| Rebottled, from stock | 5 – 10 business days |
| Rebottled, your own cages | 10 – 15 business days |
| New | 3 – 7 business days |
| Stainless, from the wants list | 2 – 6 weeks |
| Oversize 550 gal, specific grade | 2 – 6 weeks |
| Fabricated build | 3 – 14 business days |
| Single fitting or adapter | 1 business day |
Detailed questions
Can I see photographs of the actual units before I pay?
Yes, and we send them unasked on every quote. Wide shots of the staged pallets plus detail on the data plates. For food-grade orders the photographs include the plate that the prior-contents record is tied to, which is what closes the traceability chain for an auditor.
What happens if the units that arrive are not what I ordered?
You have five business days from delivery to inspect and reject anything that does not meet the purchased grade, with photographs and the serial detail. Properly rejected units are replaced or credited at our option, including return freight. Note that visible freight damage must be recorded on the delivery receipt before the driver leaves — once it is signed clean a carrier claim is extremely difficult.
Do you hold stock against a future date?
Yes, for named dates and quantities. Programme customers get reserved allocation as standard. For one-off orders we will hold specific pallets for fourteen days on a confirmed order, and we will flag incoming units at the grading pad for anything scarce — matched 330s, food grade in quantity, specific stainless configurations.
Can I mix categories on one shipment?
Yes, at no extra handling charge, and most buyers should. A typical mixed order is four food-grade units for product, twelve Grade A for process fluids, twenty technical for wash water and ballast, and a handful of cage-only frames for shelving. Buying all thirty-six at food-grade price is simply burning money.
Are the valves and lids included in the price?
Yes — every tote ships with a discharge valve and a cap unless you have specifically ordered cage-only. Brands and styles vary because units arrive from everywhere. If you need a matched fleet of identical 2-inch camlock outlets, say so and we will build the order that way for a small sorting charge of about $6 per unit.
Do you sell the regrind as well as the containers?
Yes. Post-industrial HDPE regrind from IBC bottles is high-quality feedstock — consistent resin, known history, no consumer contamination — and it goes into corrugated drainage pipe, plastic pallets, agricultural sheet and non-food containers. It is not sold for food-contact applications, because post-industrial regrind with mixed prior contents should not be.
What is the cheapest way to buy from you?
Will-call collection of technical-grade units with heavy cosmetic staining, in quantity. No freight, the bottom of the cheapest band, and the staining has no functional effect. If you can get a flatbed to Page Industrial Boulevard, that is the floor of what this product costs anywhere.
Is there anything you will not sell, regardless of price?
Four things. A non-food-history bottle into potable or edible service. A bottle with no data plate into any food application. A cracked bottle as anything other than scrap or a fabrication base. And a poly tote for diesel or petrol storage, which is a fire-code question before it is a compatibility one. We will explain why and quote the thing that actually works.
Ask for today's counts
We will send what is staged on the pad right now, with photographs, rather than a catalogue number that may be a week old.