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Fill in a few details — quantity, product type, the work you need done. We respond by email within one business day.
The crew
Four full-timers, two part-time washers who come in seasonally, and an office shop-cat named Maple who has rejected three different beds in favor of a tarp stack near the back door.
- Dan Lutz — Founder, runs the buy desk. Twenty years driving tankers, six years convincing customers that a $90 tote works as well as a $230 one.
- Renata Boyko — Operations lead. Built the wash protocol, maintains the chain-of-custody records, runs the deposit-return pilot.
- Maurice Tran — Yard manager. Drives the flatbed, runs the wash bay, fixes the wash bay.
- Cassidy Wells — Customer ops. Answers your email. (Probably the person you'll hear from.)
- Maple — Quality control. Cat.
The yard
902 Scribner Ave NW sits on 2.4 acres of paved lot just west of the river, in the old industrial corridor north of downtown Grand Rapids. The site has direct access to I-196 via the West Fulton interchange, which is the reason we outgrew the original garage and ended up here.
Layout
- Inbound staging — fenced and covered. Newly arrived totes get tagged with a yard ID before anything else happens.
- Triage row — three lanes, sorted by destination: wash, modify, or grind.
- Wash bay — covered, steam-capable, with a closed-loop water recovery system that captures and filters ~62% of rinse water.
- Food-grade staging — sealed area, separate forklift, separate chain-of-custody log.
- Repurposing yard — where the rain-catcher and raised-bed conversions happen. Open to the public on Saturdays in summer.
- Bale-out dock — where shredded HDPE leaves for closed-loop polymer recovery.
How we run a typical week
- Monday: truck routes from the weekend tally. Maurice drives, Dan dispatches.
- Tuesday–Wednesday: wash days. Cassidy answers email between forklift moves.
- Thursday: outbound staging. Sales staged for Friday pickup.
- Friday: customer pickups and yard tours.
- Saturday (May–Oct): repurposing day. We open to the public for raised-bed and rain-catcher pickups.
Visiting
We're open Mon–Fri, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m.–1 p.m. (May through October). The yard is at 902 Scribner Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504. Email ahead if you want a tour — we'll have coffee and we'll show you the wash bay.
We don't have a phone. Email info@ibctankscleveland.com.
The long-form file.
Who we are and what the place looks like. The yard runs out of 902 Scribner Ave NW in Grand Rapids — a 6-acre site with two wash bays, a small fab shop, a warehouse, and an office that's mostly a meeting table and three desks.