Used IBC totes in Plantation, Florida

What the sources say about Plantation

Airpax Products opened the city's first industrial plant on Sunrise Boulevard in 1957, in what is now Plantation Technology Park.

More background on Plantation

The city covers 21.93 square miles, 0.87 percent of it water, and August is its hottest month with an average high of 90 degrees.

January is Plantation's coolest month, with an average low of 57 degrees, according to the article.

ZIP codes and neighbors

33317, 33322, 33323, 33324, 33325, 33388. Nearest: Sunrise (100,128), Davie (112,052), Fort Lauderdale (190,641).

What that means for totes

Our reading: logistics and light industry produce empties that need the last contents stated. The business-count figure is from 2012 and dated.

For homes, a rinsed tote with a screen is the usual starting point.

A city that began as farmland and grew a technology park has older industrial buildings and newer offices. Our reading: say whether your site is an older plant with a dock or an office suite with only a loading door.

Before you ask from Plantation, find out whether your site sits in an older industrial zone or a newer office park. Older plants may have tighter doors and uneven slabs.

Our reading: a technology park, a courier head office and thousands of small companies mean Plantation sends many small-office questions as well as warehouse ones. An office tenant with two or three totes is a different request from a distributor with a stacked dock. Say which you are, and whether the totes came with a pallet, because a tote on its own pallet is far easier to move and to describe than a bare cage.

Count the totes, note which are caged and which are all plastic, and say what each held; three short facts per group are all a first reading needs.