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03The journal

All 35 journal entries

Working notes from the yard, newest first. Every one has its own page.

  1. Half-year 2026: what changed

    Six months of figures, a new bottle supplier, and a problem we finally made progress on.

  2. What our HDPE actually sells for

    Regrind pricing in 2026, who buys it, and why the number matters to people who will never touch it.

  3. The economics of taking the scrap too

    We refuse to cherry-pick loads. Here is what that policy actually costs and earns.

  4. Why we will not build pressure vessels

    The most common request we refuse, and the reasoning behind refusing it every time.

  5. Renting containers to film production

    An odd little corner of the business that runs on entirely different rules.

  6. Micro-cracks under raking light

    What a five-year-old outdoor bottle looks like when you light it properly.

  7. Converting 700 rack positions from 275s to 330s

    Twenty percent more product for seven inches of height, and one very important measurement.

  8. 2025 on the weigh tickets

    Reuse rate up, empty miles finally down, and one figure we still cannot move.

  9. Food grade is a paperwork product

    You are not buying a cleaner container. You are buying a defensible answer to four questions.

  10. The containers that cannot come back

    Semiconductor and specialty chemistry produces containers we will not put into reuse at any price.

  11. What ten thousand grading photographs taught us about damage

    We went back through a year of images and counted what actually kills containers.

  12. Selling containers you do not own

    The deposit-container problem, and why the data plate is the first thing we read.

  13. Cage geometry: measuring the diagonal

    One measurement, taken in twenty seconds, predicts more failures than any other single check.

  14. Wash water is the least green part of a recycling business

    We use potable water and heat to clean containers, and there is no version where that is free.

  15. The prior-contents log

    Seventeen years of writing down what was in the container. It is the whole company, really.

  16. What sixty aquaponics builds taught us

    The plumbing is easy. The grade selection and the siphon are where people come unstuck.

  17. Rebottling economics: the spreadsheet we show customers

    When it is cheaper to put a new bottle in your old cage than to buy anything at all.

  18. Why your container arrived with a different valve than the photo

    A small operational confession, and the process change that followed.

  19. Static and flammables: the incident that was nearly ours

    A customer filled a standard poly container with a solvent blend. Nothing ignited. It very easily could have.

  20. 2024 on the weigh tickets

    The year in figures, including the ones that went the wrong way.

  21. The containers we hold and will not sell

    From June to November we keep stock deliberately unsold, and it is not a marketing gesture.

  22. We bought a granulator. Here is what it actually cost.

    The least profitable machine on the site, and the one that makes the rest of our claims possible.

  23. What Stage 3 does to container demand

    Austin's drought restrictions are the most reliable demand signal in our business.

  24. The valve drawer

    A field guide to every outlet standard we have met in seventeen years, and the adapters between them.

  25. Summer stack creep, photographed on our own yard

    HDPE deforms under sustained load, and the rate roughly doubles for every 20 °F.

  26. How waiting nine days cut a customer's freight by 62 %

    The largest discount we offer costs us almost nothing and almost nobody asks for it.

  27. Brewery spent-grain slurry and what it does to a bottle

    The most aggressive thing we handle is not a chemical. It is breakfast.

  28. Specific gravity is the number that breaks your racking

    Everyone sizes a rack for a container. Almost nobody sizes it for what goes in the container.

  29. 1,400 containers off a Pasadena blending site

    What a genuinely large recovery looks like from the inside, including the parts that went badly.

  30. The freeze plan

    One page, printable, for the wall next to the tank array.

  31. Why we started publishing the number we landfill

    A diversion percentage without a denominator is a marketing device.

  32. Reading a bottle

    Haze, chalk, stress-whitening and stain are four different things with four different meanings.

  33. Winterising an IBC in Central Texas

    February 2021 rewrote everyone's assumptions about how cold it gets here.

  34. What a $45 tote on Craigslist actually costs you

    A cheap container is not a discount. It is an unpriced transfer of risk.

  35. The week we turned away four loads

    Intake is the only station where saying no is the whole job.

Counting it up: 10 menu groups, 65 detail pages and a handful of utility pages. The XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml is generated from the same data, so the two can never drift apart.

◆On the yard

A long line of used IBC totes on a quayside with container cranes and a cargo ship in the background
The Gulf corridorShip-channel intake. The petrochemical corridor generates more used containers than anywhere else in Texas.
A wide view down a warehouse filled with hundreds of IBC totes stacked in rows under overhead lighting
The floorRoughly forty thousand containers pass through the yard each year. Around 83 % leave as containers.