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Resources — what we wish we'd had when we started.
The references on this page are written for the actual user of an IBC tote: the brewer, the soap maker, the farmer, the warehouse manager. No SEO fluff, no "ultimate guide" clickbait. If we don't have the answer, we'll say so.
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FAQ
30+ answers to the questions we get every week — pricing, food-grade rules, pickup, gaskets, valves.
Open →Glossary
Plain-English definitions for UN ratings, valve specs, cage anatomy, regrind grades.
Open →Safety & Handling
Chemical compatibility chart, gasket selection, stack safety, decontamination notes.
Open →Blog & Articles
Field reports, reuse case studies, sustainability essays, freight math.
Open →Most-asked topics by category
Sizing & specs
- The full sizing guide — every footprint, weight, and stack number.
- 275 vs 330 gallon decision matrix
- Valves and gaskets — picking the right ones
- What an IBC tote actually can't hold
Compliance & food-grade
- How the food-grade line is drawn
- Six things pharma customers always ask
- Five questions to ask a recondition vendor
- Used IBC buying checklist
Operations
- Stack vs rack — storing IBCs without bending the cage
- Winter storage and freeze-protection
- How a pickup actually goes (start to finish)
- Freight math: backhauling matters more than you think
- Logistics routing 101
- How we set our prices
- Three jobs we said no to last quarter
Sustainability & recycling
- The carbon math of a used IBC
- Inside the granulator line
- What counts as end-of-life
- Five myths about recycling plastic
- Annual numbers, 2024 edition
- Annual numbers, 2023 edition
- The tote shortage of 2021, in retrospect
Reuse & creative builds
- Rainwater collection with IBC totes
- Soap-makers' guide to glycerin
- Why the soap-maker co-op model works
- Three stories from the fab shop
- Second Life favorites of 2024
- The full Second Life Gallery