Reuse ledger, year to date: 41,200 totes diverted from Texas landfills this year. 2,060k lb of HDPE kept in service. 1,772k lb of steel cage recovered. 3,140 tons of CO₂e avoided. 92% of our wash water recycled on site. 68 Texas counties served from one Austin yard. Full methodology at /sustainability/reuse-ledger.

Request a quote

One form.
One honest
number back.

We quote from real stock sitting on the yard, not from a catalog. Tell us the volume, the product and where it's going, and you'll have a price, a grade recommendation and a delivery date the same business day.

Flatbed trailer loaded with two rows of IBC totes secured with straps, hooked to a blue tractor unit

The short answer

Fill in quantity, product type and service, plus a ZIP code so we can price freight. Leave Grade blank if you don't know — describing what's going in the tote is more useful than guessing a code. Quotes are firm for seven days and include unit price, grade, valve spec, freight and a date.

From the yard

IBC totes strapped two high inside a box trailer with timber dunnage between the layers — Empties double-stacked and strapped over the cage rail — never over the bottle.

IBC totes staged on a port terminal apron beside stacked shipping containers and gantry cranes — Gulf Coast staging. The densest source of recoverable totes in North America.

Process

What happens after you hit send

STEP 01
It lands in a real inbox
Every form on this site goes to sales@ibctotestexas.com, read by people on the yard who can walk out and check the rack.
STEP 02
Somebody checks the stock
Against what you asked for and against what would actually serve you better. If a cheaper grade does the job, that's what comes back.
STEP 03
You get it in writing
Unit price, grade, valve spec, pallet type, freight as its own line, and a delivery date. Same business day, nothing verbal.
STEP 04
You approve, or you don't
No follow-up calls, because we don't have a phone. If you want to change the spec, reply and we'll requote.

Help us help you

Four details that turn a reply into a quote

What's going in the tote. This determines the grade, the seal compound, the valve and whether documentation is needed. It is the single most useful sentence you can write.
How many. Price steps at 10, 24 and 48 units, and again at full trailer quantities.
Destination ZIP. Enough to place you on a route and price the freight properly.
Anything odd about the site. No forklift, narrow gate, soft ground, restricted receiving hours. This is the detail that prevents a failed delivery.

Grades

If you want to name one

Quick grade reference
Code	Grade	Typical use
N	New	Regulated hazmat where you need an unbroken certification chain
R	Rebottled	Chemical packing and distribution
F	Food Grade	Syrup, oil, concentrate and sauce handling
A	Grade A	Industrial chemical storage in dedicated service
B	Grade B	Ranch and irrigation water
C	Grade C	Concrete washout containment
X	Recovery Only	HDPE granulation and steel baling

Full grade definitions →

Also quotable

Not just buying

The same form handles every service. Pick the right one in Select Service and describe the rest in the Message field.

Selling us your totes

Quantity, condition and prior contents. Photos on request. Free pickup at 20+ units.

Washing a fleet

Unit count, prior contents and which of our five wash standards you need.

Rebottling

Whether you're buying finished stock or sending your own cages. The second is cheaper.

Custom fabrication

What it needs to do, roughly what size, and how many. Sketches welcome.

What a quote from us looks like

Every quote contains the same fields, so they are easy to compare against each other:

Unit price by grade and size
The grade code, referencing our published definitions
Valve type and outlet thread
Pallet base type
Wash standard applied, and whether a record is attached
Freight as a separate line, with the route and cut-off
A delivery date, not a lead-time range
Where relevant, the estimated diversion figures for your order

It is firm for seven days. Used inventory moves, and we would rather requote than pretend a three-week-old number still stands.

What we might tell you instead

That a cheaper grade would do. That drums make more sense at your volume. That a yard closer to you will beat us on freight. That your application genuinely needs new containers rather than reconditioned ones. All four happen weekly and all four cost us a sale.

The alternative — quoting whatever you asked for and letting you discover the mismatch later — is a business model that works exactly once per customer.

Questions people actually ask

+How quickly will I get a price?

Same business day for anything sent before mid-afternoon. Requests arriving after hours are answered the next working morning. If a request needs a stock check on something unusual, we'll tell you that rather than go quiet.

+What if I don't know what I need?

Leave Grade blank, put 'Not sure yet' in Product Type, and describe the job in the Message field. Working out the right specification is the useful part of our job — the quote is the easy part.

+Is the quote binding?

It's firm for the stock and quantity described, normally for seven days. Used inventory moves, so a quote from three weeks ago may reference units that have gone.

+Do you quote freight separately?

Yes, as its own line so you can see it. That also lets you compare against collecting at the yard yourself, which is always cheaper.

+Can I get a quote for selling you totes?

Yes — same form. Put 'Sell my IBC totes' in Select Service and describe the quantity, condition and prior contents in the Message field.

Before you send

Worth two minutes

Quick reference

Numbers worth having open in another tab

The figures that come up in almost every conversation, whichever page you arrived on.

275 gallon · 1040 L

48×40×46

Tare: 130 lb
Gross, water: 2,425 lb
Stack full: 2 high
Stock: Always in stock

330 gallon · 1250 L

48×40×53

Tare: 160 lb
Gross, water: 2,915 lb
Stack full: 2 high
Stock: Always in stock

264 gallon · 1000 L

48×40×46

Tare: 125 lb
Gross, water: 2,325 lb
Stack full: 2 high
Stock: Usually in stock

350 gallon · 1325 L

48×40×56

Tare: 175 lb
Gross, water: 3,095 lb
Stack full: 2 high
Stock: Order in

Outlet thread

S60x6 — 60 mm coarse buttress. Not 2" NPT.

Grades published

N, R, F, A, B, C, X — applied at the wash bay.

Wash standards

W1 rinse through W4 caustic CIP at 160°F.

UN retest

Leakproofness 2.5 yrs, requalification 5 yrs.

From the yard notes

Longer reading on this

32 articles written by the people who wash, grade, weld and dispatch. No marketing copy in any of them.

All 32 articles

On the yard this week

Tote wash line under a canopy with a recycling sign reading clean, recondition, reuse, spraying a used IBC tote — The wash pad. Every unit gets a named standard, and the water goes back round.

While you're here

Pulled from the full FAQ, which runs to forty-plus answers across buying, grades, food safety, sizes, selling, compliance, delivery and care.

Read the full FAQ

Where we are: 3505 Montopolis Dr, Austin, TX 78744
Yard hours: Mon–Thu 7:30a–5p · Fri 7:30a–4p · Sat 8a–12p · Sun closed (Central Time)
Email: sales@ibctotestexas.com
Coverage: 68 Texas counties on scheduled routes, from one Austin yard.

+Can I transport fuel in an IBC tote?

Not on public roads — totes are not DOT-approved for it. Static storage on private property, properly placarded and contained, is a different question and is generally permissible subject to local fire code.

+Do you pick up?

Free at 20 units or more anywhere in Texas, because the collection rides a return leg. Below that we can often still fit you onto a route we already run.

+How many totes fit on a truck?

Twenty on the floor of a 48-foot flatbed or dry van, regardless of whether they're 275s or 330s. Forty if they're empty and double-stacked.

+Do you provide wash certificates?

Yes for W3, W4 and W5 washes: standard, temperature, detergent, sanitiser, date and operator. We retain copies for seven years.

+What do your grades mean?

N is new, R is rebottled, F is documented food grade, A is clean and presentable, B is sound with visible history, C is structurally sound but cosmetically rough, and X is material recovery only. Full definitions are on the grades page and they are applied by the person who washed the unit.

The form is at the top of this page.

And at the top of every other page on this site, and behind the button in the corner. Or write to sales@ibctotestexas.com directly — same inbox, same people.

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