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Used IBC totes in Manhattan
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What Manhattan generates
Manhattan rarely produces totes in bulk. What it produces is a steady trickle: cooling-tower chemistry from building services, used cooking oil from restaurant groups, cleaning concentrate from facilities contractors, and solvent from university and hospital labs. Individually small, collectively constant.
Getting there, and getting loaded
Access is the whole job here. We collect Manhattan sites off-peak, usually before 8 AM, using a box truck with a lift gate rather than a trailer. Where there's no dock we'll work from a curb-side permit window. Sub-eight-unit lots get consolidated with a neighbouring pickup so you still get the free collection.
Neighbourhoods we run regularly
Midtown, Chelsea, Hudson Yards, Financial District, Harlem, Upper East Side, Washington Heights — and everywhere between them. If your address isn't on that list it does not mean we don't come; it means we ran out of room.
Buying in Manhattan
Delivery works the same way in reverse. Forty totes fit a 53-foot trailer, and where a site can only take part of a load we stage the deliveries rather than leaving a yard full of containers and no forklift. Current stock, grades and pricing are on the buying page, and if you want to see them first, the yard at 19-22 45th St, Astoria, NY 11105 is open six days a week.
Services available here
Before you book
Have the dock height, gate width and forklift situation to hand. In Manhattan specifically, the thing that most often derails a collection is a freight lift that turns out to be smaller than the tote.
Frequently asked questions
Collections in Manhattan, answered.
The five things people in this zone ask us most before booking.
Can you collect totes from a Manhattan building with no loading dock?
Yes. We use a box truck with a lift gate rather than a trailer and work from a curb-side permit window where there is no dock. Access is genuinely the whole job in Manhattan, so tell us the situation up front.
When do you run Manhattan collections?
Off-peak, usually before 8 AM. Scheduling around the loading window and the street restrictions is what keeps a Manhattan job to one visit instead of two.
I only have three totes. Will you still come?
Yes. Manhattan produces a steady trickle rather than bulk, so we consolidate sub-eight-unit lots with a neighbouring pickup — which means you still get the free collection.
What kinds of totes come out of Manhattan?
Cooling-tower chemistry from building services, used cooking oil from restaurant groups, cleaning concentrate from facilities contractors and lab solvent from the universities and hospitals. Individually small, collectively constant.
Do you deliver totes into Manhattan as well?
We do, on the same off-peak schedule and with the same lift-gate truck. Confirm the freight lift dimensions first — a lift smaller than the tote is the classic Manhattan delivery failure.
Got totes in Manhattan?
Send four photos — plate, interior, valve and the pile — and you'll have a firm written offer within one business day.
