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IBC tote recycling in Landover, Maryland
Eight O’Clock Coffee has a coffee production plant in Landover, and Giant Food’s headquarters is in the Ardwick Industrial Park area near New Carrollton. Transit bus maintenance is the other line of work.
- ZIP codes
- 20784, 20785
- Industries
- Coffee roasting, grocery HQ and distribution, bus maintenance
- Corridors
- I-495, MD 295
- County
- Prince George's County
Coffee and grocery
A roaster and a grocery distribution center handle food ingredients and food-plant cleaners. Food ingredient totes are the most valuable empties, and cleaner totes are the most common. A site that has both should keep them apart from the first day.
Giant Food’s area
Giant Food has 2,197 employees among Prince George’s County’s major employers for 2023 and 2024. The headquarters is in the Ardwick Industrial Park area. We do not say what Giant’s totes held, and nothing here is a statement about the company.
Bus maintenance
Transit bus maintenance uses fluids, coolants and cleaners. Those totes are chemical totes, graded on the SDS.
Coffee and groceries on one list
A coffee roaster buys packaging, cleaners and sometimes flavorings in volume. A grocery company’s distribution arm buys cleaners and refrigeration chemistry. Between them they illustrate why the first question is what the tote held, because the two buildings may be a mile apart and their empties go to different grades.
Eight O’Clock Coffee and the roasting floor
A coffee production plant uses food-grade flavorings, packaging materials and cleaners. The roasting floor itself produces smoke and grease, so its cleaning chemistry is heavier than a bakery’s. Cleaner totes from the roasting floor and ingredient totes from the packing line should be kept apart.
Transit bus maintenance
A bus garage uses coolant, engine fluids and wash chemicals. Coolant totes are ethylene or propylene glycol blends, and the SDS says which. Those totes follow the glycol path described on the data-center page, whatever industry they come from.
Before you write from Landover
Tell us whether the totes come from roasting, packing, distribution or a bus garage, because those four sources hold four different kinds of product. A line about the label and the plate completes a request, and the ZIP code, 20784 or 20785, places the site.
Roasters and bus garages
A coffee plant and a bus maintenance garage empty very different totes. Say whether yours are flavorings and cleaners or coolants and fluids, and the grade follows.
Roasting, packing and fleets
A roasting plant, a headquarters distribution floor and a bus garage sit in the same small area, and each empties different totes. Name the building and the operation so that coffee flavorings and coolant are not confused.
Asking from Landover
Landover ZIP codes are 20785 and 20784.
Send the product on the label and the number of totes. We say what fits and whether a pickup reaches Landover.
Request a pickup hereQuestions people ask
What are Landover’s main industries?
Coffee roasting, grocery headquarters and distribution, and transit bus maintenance.
Which ZIP codes?
20784 and 20785.
Is Giant Food’s headquarters in Landover?
Wikipedia places it in the Ardwick Industrial Park area near New Carrollton, which is why the Landover entry mentions it.
Keep reading
- Food and beverage plantsFood and beverage plants, grocery distributors and roasters empty ingredient and cleaner totes. See how each is graded and where it goes.
- Food-grade emptiesBreweries, distilleries and food plants: how to keep a tote's food-grade history intact so it can be sold for food or water use.
Sources
Last reviewed . General guidance, not legal advice.