Empty tote recycling in Prince George’s County, Maryland

Trade, transport and utilities

Maryland Commerce reports 6,659 manufacturing jobs across 349 establishments in the county in 2024, alongside the trade, transportation and utilities total. Giant Food employs 2,197 and Shoppers supermarkets 1,484 among the county’s major employers for 2023 and 2024. The county’s lines of work include supermarkets and grocery distribution, manufacturing, trade, transportation and utilities, and federal research.

Grocery distribution produces food-ingredient and cleaning totes. Utilities produce treatment chemicals. Keeping those two apart is the first job of any request from the county.

Roads and rails

The county is served by I-95/I-495, U.S. 1, U.S. 50, U.S. 301, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (MD 295) and the ICC (MD 200). CSX and Norfolk Southern both run freight through it, and a countywide Foreign Trade Zone covers its sites.

Four places have their own pages: Hyattsville for breweries, Landover for coffee and grocery, Beltsville for research and Capitol Heights for light industrial.

Four cities, four jobs

The last column is a pattern, not a record. The SDS replaces it with fact.

Maryland’s rulebook

MDE enforces COMAR 26.13. Prince George’s generators use the Maryland generator categories, not the federal very-small-quantity category, so the first step for a new site is to read the MDE compliance guide for its category.

The federal empty rule still decides whether a tote counts as empty. The RCRA empty guide gives both tests. Sites in 20785, 20782 and 20705 and the county’s other postal codes use the same form.

Four cities, four jobs

The last column is a pattern, not data. The SDS replaces it with fact.

Cities under Prince George's County, MD

• Hyattsville, MDHyattsville’s craft breweries and distilleries reuse old buildings along Route 1. See what their syrup and cleaner totes become.
• Landover, MDLandover has coffee roasting, grocery headquarters and distribution, and transit bus maintenance. See how their totes are graded.
• Beltsville, MDBeltsville is home to the USDA’s agricultural research center and federal facilities. See how research and facility totes are graded.
• Capitol Heights, MDCapitol Heights is light industrial in Prince George’s County. Little else is published about its industry, so this page says what is and is not known.