Nine ways to keep a container in service.
Tell us what you need done
Pick the closest service in the dropdown and describe the rest in the message. Combining jobs into one visit saves you a freight leg.
Everything we do falls into one of two categories: putting containers into service, or keeping them there. Buying, leasing and fabrication start a container's next life. Washing, reconditioning, inspection and freight extend it. Recycling is the last resort, and we treat it as a failure of the other seven.
From the yard
All nine services
Buy Used IBC Totes
Graded, photographed stock with prior-contents records — pick a grade, we pull the pallet.
No minimum order
02We Buy Your Totes
Turn a yard full of empties into cash or credit, with free pickup on twelve or more.
Cash or credit
03Reconditioning & Rebottling
Send us your fleet, get it back washed, re-caged, re-gasketed and ready to fill.
From $48 per unit
04Triple-Rinse Washing
Caustic circuit, hot-water finish, closed-loop water and a documented wash certificate.
From $38 per unit
05Recycling & End-of-Life
Granulation, steel recovery and a diversion report you can put in a sustainability filing.
No charge for non-hazardous
06Freight & Local Delivery
Flatbed, van and liftgate routes inside the Bay Area, brokered freight beyond.
Flat $120 inside SF
07Tote Leasing & Pooling
Rent the container, not the waste. Seasonal terms welcome.
From $18/month
08Custom Fabrication
Cut, plumb, weld, stencil and manifold totes into whatever your process actually needs.
Quoted per job
09Inspection & UN Recertification
Keep hazmat totes road-legal with documented periodic testing.
$38 per unit
Every service is one stage of the same loop
This is not a menu of unrelated offerings. It is one circular process, and you can join it at any point.
Collected
We pull empties from breweries, packers, growers and plants inside a 250-mile radius — often on the same run that delivers their next batch.
Triaged
Every container is logged, sniffed, UV-lamped and graded A, B, C or scrap before it touches a wash bay.
Washed
Triple rinse, caustic circuit, hot-water finish. 94% of the water goes back around the loop instead of down a drain.
Rebuilt
Bent cages get straightened, cracked bottles get swapped, valves and gaskets get replaced with new EPDM.
Certified
Leak test, pressure check, UN/DOT plate review. Anything hauling regulated liquid leaves with paperwork.
Back to work
Delivered on our own flatbeds across the Bay Area — then collected again when it comes back empty.
…and stage 06 becomes stage 01 again. Our yard average is six full cycles before a bottle is finally granulated into regrind.
Price, lead time and whether it needs your containers
Indicative 2026 figures. Everything is quoted properly before anything moves.
| Service | From | Lead time | Your containers? | Booked how |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buy used IBC totes | $85 per unit | 1–3 days | No | Quote request |
| We buy your totes | We pay $25–$95 | 2–7 days | Yes | Photos + count |
| Reconditioning & rebottling | $48 per unit | 3–10 days | Yes | Booked slot |
| Triple-rinse washing | $38 per unit | 3–7 days | Yes | Booked slot |
| Recycling & end-of-life | Free, non-hazardous | 2–7 days | Yes | Photos + SDS |
| Freight & local delivery | $120 flat in SF | Next day | Either | With the order |
| Tote leasing & pooling | $18 per month | 2–5 days | No | Agreement |
| Custom fabrication | $120 per job | 1–3 weeks | Either | Sketch + quote |
| Inspection & UN recert | $38 per unit | Same visit | Yes | Booked slot |
Two processes worth understanding properly.
Rebottling and the wash-water loop are the two things that make the economics and the ecology of this yard work. We have written both up in detail.
The 11-Step Rebottling Process
Every stage from cage triage to final torque, including the two steps where a rushed job shows up six months later as a failure.
DEEP DIVEInside the Wash-Water Loop
How a three-stage separator took us from 110 gallons of fresh water per container to seven, and what it cost to get there.
Working with us
Do I have to buy containers to use your services?
No. Toll washing, toll reconditioning, UN inspection, fabrication and recycling are all available on containers you already own, and a good share of our work is exactly that. Bring us your fleet, or ship it in, and it goes back out to you — same asset numbers, same plates.
What is the fastest way to get a real answer?
The form on this page. Every service request lands in one written queue that a person reads — usually Wesley, sometimes whoever owns that service. We do not run a phone line, deliberately, so that nothing gets lost in a voicemail. Most requests get a substantive reply within one business day.
Can you combine services in one visit?
Yes, and you should. Wash plus UN inspection plus a cage rebuild in a single trip costs one freight leg instead of three. Tell us everything you want done at quote time and we will schedule it as one job rather than three queue positions.
Which services have seasonal constraints?
Food-grade leasing and food-line washing book out for August through November by early summer — harvest and brewing collide with the same wash capacity. Fabrication runs one to three weeks year-round. Everything else is largely aseasonal; the freight lanes to Napa and Sonoma are the exception during crush.