IBC tote recycling in Herndon, Virginia

Where Herndon fits

Chantilly, a few miles to the south-southwest, joins U.S. 50 and Route 28 and connects to the Dulles, Reston and Tysons technology corridor. Herndon sits on that corridor, so its data centers and office campuses draw on the same water-treatment suppliers as Loudoun’s.

A cooling plant’s water needs corrosion control and microbial control, and the totes that carry those chemicals are the ones a Herndon facility team empties on a maintenance cycle.

Federal IT and aerospace

Federal IT contractors rent office space, and a building with its own chillers empties totes of glycol or inhibitor on a maintenance cycle. Aerospace work adds the shop side: cleaners, coatings and fluids. We name no employer here that the cited sources do not name.

What a Herndon request should say

• The product, as written on the label.
• The size and the number of totes.
• The heel in inches.
• Whether the building has a loading dock.

The data-center cooling page lists likely grades, and the Fairfax County page gives the wider picture.

One ZIP code, several building types

Herndon’s ZIP codes, 20170 and 20171, hold data halls, office campuses and aerospace work. A data hall sends coolant and inhibitor totes. An aerospace shop may send cleaners and coatings. An office campus with its own plant sends water-treatment totes. They look alike on a pallet and differ on the SDS.

Aerospace and federal IT neighbours

Aerospace work in Herndon sits beside the data halls, and a shop floor produces a different mix of empties: cleaners, coatings and fluids in totes that are often smaller than a data hall’s. Federal IT contractors keep the least visible empties of all, because their chillers are inside leased buildings. In each case the label and the SDS are the starting point, and a photograph of the plate helps.

Office parks with chillers

A Herndon office park often has one shared chiller plant for several tenants. Say who owns the totes, the landlord or a tenant, because that decides who can release them and who signs for them.

Asking from Herndon

Herndon’s ZIP codes are 20170 and 20171.