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The development of large‐capacity containers has enabled significant innovation in the handling of dry beans. The tote or box concepts enable the handling of bean weights in excess of 1‐ton (2,000 lbs) packages within the transport vehicle. These containers provide significant opportunity for cost savings through material reduction and labor and handling costs. Each large tote may be individually identified using a placard system to provide point of origin, identity, lot inspection data, and net weight contents. These totes may be affixed with a universal product code (UPC bar code) to enable scanning inventory control of the tote bag, its contents, its history of use, and ownership. The large tote containers must be serviceable through recycling and reuse to ensure amortizing the initial capital costs of the container over multiple distribution cycles (Roberston and Frazier 1978). Several configurations of flexible woven polyethylene totes are available commercially.