Across the river: the counties and districts we cover

01The ten counties

On a phone the strip map above turns into the plain list under it. Every county name in the strip is a link to its page.

02How the metro is split

The Delaware runs southwest along the edge of the metro, and the empties pile up on both banks. On the Pennsylvania side, the refinery and terminal riverfront runs from Trainer and Marcus Hook up to Eddystone and into South Philadelphia, with pharma along the Schuylkill and the Route 422 and Route 202 corridors, and the mushroom belt around Kennett Square to the west. On the New Jersey side, I-295 and the Turnpike carry a warehouse belt from Pennsauken to Pureland, with the Paulsboro refinery and the chemicals at Deepwater. Delaware has the port at Wilmington, the Delaware City refinery and chemical plants on Route 9.

The split matters for a trade. A seller at a refinery pad in Delaware County and a grower in Gloucester County are on opposite banks, and the move crosses the Commodore Barry Bridge and a state line. The area pages say which roads and which state agency apply.

03Which page to open

Open your county if you know it, your district if you are a plant or a farm in one of the named industrial areas, or an industry page if you think of yourself by trade. The three-state rules guide names the agency in each state, and the sell and buy pages start a ticket. Plants, ports and companies named in the area pages are context for what sits around a district. None is a customer, seller or partner of the desk.

04How the pages are organised

Each county page lists its districts with their ZIP codes and industries, then says who has empties and who needs totes. Each district page goes one level down: the roads, the crossings, the agency to ask and the plants named as context, with the sources at the foot. Industry pages cut the same map by trade instead of by place.

A ticket records the ZIP where the totes stand, and the desk uses it to find the nearest match first. A match inside a county is the shortest trip, a match across the Delaware crosses into another state’s program, and the ticket says which.

→In Areas

• Philadelphia CountyThe port, the Navy Yard, Northeast food plants and rowhouse roofs.
• Delaware County, PATrainer, Marcus Hook, Chester and the Eddystone-to-Ridley riverfront.
• Montgomery County, PAPharma campuses, specialty chemicals and the Schuylkill corridor.
• Bucks CountyBristol and Falls Township polymers, Bensalem food plants and farms.
• Chester CountyThe mushroom belt, Exton pharma and Coatesville steel.
• Gloucester County, NJPureland cold storage, Paulsboro refining and Swedesboro farms.
• Camden County, NJCamden food plants, Pennsauken distribution and the Gloucester City terminal.
• Burlington County, NJRiver towns, logistics parks and farms along the Delaware and the Pine Barrens edge.
• Salem County, NJDeepwater chemicals, the Delaware Memorial Bridge approach and flat farmland.
• New Castle County, DEDelaware City refining, the Port of Wilmington and Newark labs.

+Nearby on the desk

• IndustriesRefineries, chemical and polymer plants, pharma, food plants, cold storage, mushroom growers, farms and gardens: how totes move in each.
• Three-state rulesWhich agency handles empty containers and rinse water in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, kept apart state by state.
• SellPlants, blenders and farms in PA, NJ and DE: post your empty IBC totes with size, count, last contents and SDS, and the desk finds the buyer.
• BuyRebottled, reconditioned, washed and as-is 275 and 330 gallon IBC totes for plants, blenders, farms and gardens around Philadelphia. Post what you need.
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