IBC totes in Bucks County: Lower Bucks polymers to upper farms

01What sits here

Dow’s Bristol Township plant covers about 800 acres on the Delaware and has made chemicals since 1917, including plastics, resins and emulsion polymers. Falls Township holds the Keystone Trade Center on the old U.S. Steel Fairless Works site, where a developer expects about 15 million square feet of industrial space in all. Bensalem is the county’s biggest industrial township.

02Who has empties, who needs totes

Lower Bucks puts out polymer and chemical empties from the river and food-plant empties from Bensalem. Upper Bucks and its farms have a smaller need for water totes. The county’s position next to Northeast Philadelphia and across the river from Burlington County shortens the haul for either side.

03Roads, rules and the move

I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike cross Lower Bucks, with US 1 and US 13 running through it. The Burlington-Bristol Bridge and the Delaware River Turnpike Bridge cross to Burlington County. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is the state agency to ask. Bristol and Falls, and Bensalem, have pages of their own.

04Districts in this county

05A ticket from here

• Put one of the ZIP codes from the first table on the ticket.
• Say Lower Bucks or the district, and the last contents.

06Lower Bucks and the river

Bucks County meets the Delaware at Bristol and Falls Township, where Dow’s Bristol Township plant covers about 800 acres and the Keystone Trade Center stands on the old Fairless Works ground. The Burlington-Bristol Bridge, the Delaware River Turnpike Bridge and the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge cross to New Jersey, while Bensalem sits on I-95 beside Northeast Philadelphia.

07Who buys and who sells here

Lower Bucks tickets often come from large logistics tenants working to dock appointments, where a pallet of rinsed totes can leave on a returning trailer. Upper Bucks farms, orchards and nurseries buy water tanks in spring, and Newtown, Doylestown and Quakertown roads are narrow, so a short truck suits them.

→Inside Bucks County

• Bristol and Falls TownshipEmulsion polymers, resins, data centers and big logistics sites.
• BensalemFood makers, food distribution and warehousing.

+Nearby on the desk

• Chemical and polymer plantsBristol, Deepwater and New Castle: resins, surfactants and fluoropolymers.
• Burlington County, NJRiver towns, logistics parks and farms along the Delaware and the Pine Barrens edge.
• Philadelphia CountyThe port, the Navy Yard, Northeast food plants and rowhouse roofs.
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