Sell your IBC totes — we buy empties for cash
To sell, email us photos, prior contents, the count, and your ZIP — no phone needed. We reply with an offer and a pickup plan, handle reverse logistics, and pay you for totes that would otherwise cost you money to throw away. We buy in most conditions, so don't assume yours are junk.
The single biggest factor in your offer is prior contents. Totes that held FDA-approved food products or non-hazardous industrial liquids are the easiest to renew and command the best price. Cage integrity, valve condition, and count do the rest. Not sure what you have? Send photos and we'll tell you.
What we buy
Condition tiers we take
Clean food-grade empties
Held only FDA-approved edible products, intact cage, working valve. These fetch the strongest offers and go straight into reconditioning.
Industrial empties
Previously held non-hazardous industrial liquids — soaps, surfactants, treatment chemicals. Solid value, high demand.
Tired bottles, good cages
Bottle worn but the steel cage is sound? We still buy — the cage gets a new HDPE bottle in our rebottling line.
How selling works
From empties to payment in five steps
Send the details
Email photos of the totes, the prior contents of each, the count, and your ZIP. Any quote form on the site reaches us — no phone call needed.
Get your offer
We assess prior contents, cage integrity, valve condition, and count, then reply by email with a per-tote offer and a total.
Approve the pickup
Accept the offer and we schedule reverse logistics — palletized LTL for small lots, full truckloads for larger volumes. See transport.
We haul them out
Our carrier collects the totes from your dock on 40x48 pallets. You don't arrange or pay for freight yourself.
Get paid — and diverted
You collect cash for what used to be a disposal cost, and every tote enters the reuse loop instead of a landfill.
Pricing drivers
What sets your offer
Transparent factors, no lowball games. The cleaner and more consistent your lot, the stronger the offer.
- Prior contents — food-grade and non-hazardous industrial totes are worth the most.
- Cage & bottle condition — sound cages and intact bottles renew fastest.
- Count — a full truckload (~40 totes) is more efficient to collect and prices better per unit.
- Location — proximity to our lanes out of Peoria affects the reverse-freight math.
- Fittings — standard valves and caps are easiest to redeploy.
Why it matters
Turn idle empties into cash — and impact
Every tote you sell instead of dumping is one we can renew in reconditioning and resell — a documented win for your sustainability reporting.
Questions
Selling FAQ
What IBC totes do you buy?
How do I get a quote to sell?
Do you pick up the totes?
Why sell instead of disposing?
Sell your IBC totes
Email photos, prior contents, count, and your ZIP — we'll reply with an offer and arrange pickup.