Your idle totes are worth cash. Let’s not scrap them.
Got 275 or 330 gallon totes gathering dust in a yard? Email a few photos and we’ll turn them into money — and a genuine carbon win. Selling to us beats scrapping on every axis that matters.
Four steps from clutter to cash
Selling us your totes is deliberately boring — the way logistics should be. Start with an email; we do the heavy lifting from there.
Email photos
Snap a few shots — bottles, cages, valves, and any labels. Add a rough count and what they last held. That’s the whole application.
Get a quote
We reply within one business day with a per-tote offer based on grade, quantity, and location. Questions get answered in writing, not on hold.
We schedule pickup
Accept the quote and we book a collection window and route a truck to your site — often folded into an existing run to keep it efficient.
You get paid
Totes loaded, you’re paid on collection or agreed terms. They re-enter the loop; you’ve cleared space and pocketed cash.
From near-new to well-worn — we’ll take a look
You don’t need pristine totes to get paid. We buy across conditions because different totes take different paths through our loop.
275 & 330 gallon
Standard caged HDPE totes with steel cages on composite or wood pallets — the workhorses we deal in every day.
Food & technical prior use
Totes that held food-safe or industrial-but-known contents are prime candidates for reconditioning and earn the strongest offers.
Damaged or unknown
Cracked bottles, tired cages, or mystery contents still have value — they feed reconditioning or responsible recycling instead of a dumpster.
Single totes to full loads
One tote or a few hundred — we’ll consolidate smaller lots into routes and quote large quantities as a batch.
Assorted valves & fittings
Mixed valve types and outlets are fine. Loose caps, lids, and spare cages can often be bundled into the deal too.
Whole yards
Clearing a site or downsizing operations? We handle bulk lot buy-outs and coordinate the full removal.
What moves the number up or down
Every quote is specific to your totes, but these are the levers. Cleaner, sounder, and more of them in one easy-to-reach spot all push the offer higher.
| Factor | Raises your offer | Lowers your offer |
|---|---|---|
| Prior contents | Food-safe or known, benign liquids | Hazardous, unknown, or residue-heavy |
| Bottle condition | No cracks, bulges, or staining; holds liquid | Cracks, leaks, sun-brittle HDPE |
| Cage & pallet | Sound welds, straight bars, intact pallet | Bent cage, rust-through, broken pallet |
| Valve & fittings | Working valve, standard outlet, caps present | Seized, missing, or non-standard valve |
| Quantity | Palletized volume, recurring supply | One-off single totes far from a route |
| Location & access | Forklift access near our lanes | Remote site, hand-loading, tight access |
Not sure which grade your totes are? The Grades Explained guide breaks down how prior contents and cleaning map to grade — and therefore value.
Why selling to us beats the scrap yard
Scrapping a tote costs you twice — you often pay to dispose of it, and the planet pays for a brand-new one to replace it. Selling flips both.
The lose-lose
- You often pay disposal or hauling fees
- Sound HDPE and steel get shredded prematurely
- A factory molds a fresh tote to replace it — full carbon cost
- Zero traceability, zero sustainability story
The win-win
- You get paid instead of paying
- The tote gets a second, third, or tenth life
- Reuse avoids roughly 22 kg CO₂e per tote versus new
- A clean, reportable diversion for your ESG numbers
Selling your totes — FAQ
How do I sell my IBC totes for cash?
How much are my used totes worth?
Do you pick up, and is there a minimum quantity?
Will you buy totes that held chemicals or are damaged?
How and when do I get paid?
Where your totes go once they leave your yard
Selling to us isn’t a dead end for a tote — it’s the start of another life. Which path a tote takes depends on its condition, and every path beats a landfill.
Straight to reuse
Sound totes with clean, known histories get inspected, washed, and redeployed as inspected used stock — the lowest-impact outcome of all.
Into reconditioning
Totes that need work run our triple-wash line, get pressure-tested, and come out re-graded to food or technical spec with per-tote certification.
Rebottled
When the bottle is spent but the steel cage and pallet are sound, we swap in a fresh food-grade HDPE bottle and keep the heavy hardware in service.
Repurposed
Past liquid-service life, a cage and bottle can become a rain barrel, planter, or storage unit before anything is ever shredded.
Materials recovered
Only genuinely spent totes are dismantled — HDPE #2 granulated, steel cage recovered as scrap, pallet reused where sound.
Never dumpstered
What doesn’t happen: a still-usable tote getting buried. If a container has life left, we keep it in the loop rather than the ground.
The condition tiers below map roughly to these paths — and to what we can offer.
Condition tiers, at a glance
Before you email, it helps to eyeball where your totes sit. This isn’t a formal quote — just the rough tiers we work in and where each usually ends up.
| Tier | What it looks like | Likely destination | Offer level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prime | Food-safe history, clear bottle, sound cage, working valve | Reuse or food-grade recondition | Highest |
| Standard | Known industrial contents, minor staining, solid structure | Technical-grade reconditioning | Strong |
| Repairable | Spent bottle but sound cage and pallet | Rebottling | Moderate |
| Salvage | Cracked bottle, tired cage, or unknown residue | Repurpose or recycling | Lower, still beats scrapping |
Not sure which tier fits? That’s what the photos are for — send them and we’ll place your totes for you. The Grades Explained guide adds detail on how prior contents map to grade.
Idle totes are working capital sitting still.
Every tote parked in a back corner is money you already spent, doing nothing — and often quietly heading toward a disposal fee. Buy-back turns that stranded asset back into cash or credit, clears the space, and hands the tote to someone who needs it. You come out ahead, the next buyer comes out ahead, and a factory never has to mold a replacement.
One email starts it. The totes leave, the cash arrives, and roughly 22 kg of CO₂e per tote never gets emitted.
Getting paid — the details
How do you pay — check, transfer, or credit?
Can I set up a recurring pickup for totes we generate?
What if you reject some of the totes on arrival?
Do you buy anything besides 275 and 330 gallon totes?
Do you buy outside California?
How should I prep totes before pickup?
Where to go next
Sell into the loop, then see what the loop does with your totes.
Sitting on idle totes? Let’s turn them into cash.
Whether you have ten idle totes in a yard or need three hundred delivered next week, we can help — and the planet gets a win either way.