IBC tote recycling in Lorton, Virginia

Treatment chemicals

A wastewater plant doses chemicals to treat water, and the chemicals arrive in totes. They are the most regulated totes this site describes, and the wastewater page says how they are graded. Recycle only is the common outcome.

The Auto Train

The Auto Train carries passengers and their cars, and Lorton is its northern terminal. That terminal is a rail yard with maintenance needs, so an empty tote there is more likely to have held a cleaner or a fluid than a food ingredient. We say it as a likelihood.

Roads

Interstate 95 and U.S. 1 run through Lorton, and the town is the southern end of the Fairfax County side of the metro. A tote that is ready can be on either road in a few minutes.

A small place with two unusual neighbours

Lorton lists only two industries, wastewater treatment and rail auto transport, and they share little. The first uses treatment chemicals in volume. The second moves vehicles by train. A request from Lorton is therefore likely to come from the first, and the page for water and wastewater utilities is the one to read.

The ZIP code, 22079, is shared with Newington. Give the street address or the nearest cross street so that nobody confuses the two.

Newington next door

Newington shares the same ZIP code, 22079, with no tote-emptying industry of its own, so it has no page. A site in Newington can use this one. Say in the request which of the two it is in and what the nearest main road is, so the location is clear.

Reading the Auto Train yard

A passenger rail terminal has track, platform and locomotive maintenance, plus the loading of vehicles onto cars. Fluids for vehicles and track equipment, degreasers for the yard and washing chemicals for the platforms are the likely tote contents. Whoever manages that work holds the SDS, and that person is the one to write.

Before you write from Lorton

Have the product name, the supplier and the plate date to hand, and note whether the totes stand under cover. Treatment sites tend to have good paperwork; a rail yard tends to have a good photograph of the label instead.

Asking from Lorton

Lorton has one ZIP code, 22079, shared with Newington.