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Inside the Yard
What actually happens on a wash line, a grading bay and a cleanout visit.
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- 7 October 202510 min
What we learned from 400,000 graded totes
Sixteen years of individually graded units produce some patterns worth publishing — including three that contradicted what we believed when we started.
Dana Whitfield, QA Lead
- 20 August 20248 min
Rebottling: saving the most expensive component
The galvanised steel cage carries more embodied carbon than the bottle and lasts three times as long. Scrapping it alongside a failed bottle is this industry's biggest avoidable loss.
Luis Ferrara, Yard Manager
- 16 April 20248 min
The site cleanout nobody scheduled for fifteen years
Why yards of mixed totes sit untouched for a decade, what happens on a clearing visit, and why three quarters of these jobs settle as a credit rather than a cost.
Luis Ferrara, Yard Manager
- 5 July 20238 min
Closing the loop on wash water: 92% and why not 100%
How a tote wash line recovers 92% of its water, what the remaining 8% is, and why the last few percent is harder and less useful than it sounds.
Marcus Oyelaran, Wash Line Lead
- 23 May 20239 min
How we grade a tote: eleven checks in six minutes
The only genuinely skilled judgement in a reclaim operation, described step by step — including why the order of the checks matters as much as the checks themselves.
Nadia Kerr, Reclaim Specialist
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