§ 01.3Company / Facility & Network
16751 Lathrop Ave.
Everything happens here.
Harvey, Illinois sits where the Chicago rail belt meets I-57, I-80 and I-294. That geography is why a tote collected in Georgia and a tote collected in Oregon can both land on the same wash line and still make commercial sense.
- Address
- 16751 Lathrop Ave, Harvey, IL 60426
- Yard
- Rail & interstate adjacent
- Stations
- 7 under one roof
- Lanes
- 48 states
§ 01.3.1Inside the building
Seven stations, laid out in the order a tote moves.
The floor plan follows the process, not the other way around. A unit travels in one direction from the intake dock to the outbound dock, and the only units moving backwards are the ones that failed something.
Station 1–2
Intake & grading
Covered intake dock, weigh pad, sealed quarantine pad, individual grading bays with cage geometry jigs.
Station 3
Residue handling
Compatibility-segregated heel capture, profiling bench, consolidation totes for licensed outbound.
Station 4
Wash line
Triple-rinse, caustic and solvent circuits, high-temperature food-grade circuit on separated water.
Station 5
Test rig
Pressure and leak test with hold phase, 100% of reuse units, logged against lot and serial.
Station 6
Rebottling & assembly
Cage straightening press, new-bottle drop-in, valve and gasket fitting, UN/DOT recertification bench.
Station 7
Granulation & hot wash
Granulator, hot-wash tank, dewatering and pelletizing into traceable recycled HDPE.
Fabrication
Upcycled builds
Cutting, fitting and finishing bay for rain harvesters, sumps, planters and waterers.
Outbound
Staging & dispatch
Graded racking, food-grade segregated racking, load staging and the freight desk.
§ 01.3.2Freight
Lanes, minimums and lead times — published.
Most reconditioners make you call to find out whether they will come to you. Here is the actual answer.
| Band | Radius | Minimum pickup | Typical lead time | Freight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 0–150 mi | 4 totes | 2–4 business days | Included |
| B | 150–350 mi | 12 totes | 3–6 business days | Included at 24+ |
| C | 350–800 mi | 24 totes | 4–8 business days | Included at 48 |
| D | 800–1,500 mi | 48 totes | 5–10 business days | Quoted per lane |
| E | 1,500 mi+ | 48 totes | 7–14 business days | Quoted per lane |
Bands are indicative. A partial load on a lane we already run can beat every number in this table — always ask, because our empty backhauls are your cheapest freight.
Site conditions we handle
- Loading dock, any height
- Ground level with our own forklift
- No forklift on site — we bring one
- Gravel or unpaved yards
- Gated sites with escort requirements
- Sites needing site-specific safety induction
- 48units
- Totes per 53' trailer
- 96units
- Double-stacked where rated
- 48states
- Lanes served
- 3–7days
- Typical lead time
Single-stacked 275 gal composites.
Empty units only, cage condition permitting.
Own fleet plus vetted contract carriers.
From confirmed quote to wheels on site.
§ 01.3.3Why Harvey
One yard beats five warehouses.
A distributed network looks impressive on a map and destroys traceability in practice. Five sites means five grading standards, five wash recipes and five versions of the truth about what was in the bottle.
- Rail
- Chicago belt adjacency for inbound resin and outbound flake
- Interstate
- I-57 · I-80 · I-294 within 6 miles
- Backhaul capture
- Outbound deliveries return loaded with empties
- Single standard
- One grading scale, one wash recipe book, one QA team
Visit
We'd rather you saw the floor than read about it.
Site visits are welcome by appointment during yard hours. Bring a tote and we'll grade it in front of you.