Plastic tubs, jars and containers looking for a second life.
How it works
- Message them
- Agree on price or trade
- Meet up locally
No shipping, no fees through the site.
Why this, not the recycling bin
Deli tubs, yogurt cups and most food containers are polypropylene — recycling code #5. Despite the symbol stamped into the bottom, only 3–8% of it actually gets recycled in practice; most municipal programs don't take it.
When recycling does happen, it still costs energy to melt, reprocess and remanufacture — estimates put the carbon savings at 30–80% versus making a container from new plastic. Reusing one as-is skips that process entirely.
Reuse doesn't have to mean the same use. A yogurt tub becomes a seed starter, a big jar becomes a pantry canister, a deli tub becomes the box of screws in someone's garage — what it does next is up to whoever picks it up.
Where this started
The habit started at a meditation retreat, where the community lived on donations and took real care of what got reused, plastic included. Coming home, that stuck: washing out a feta tub or a yogurt cup instead of tossing it, then using it for something as ordinary as picking blackberries.
The harder part came next. Thrift shops generally won't take plastic containers, and the fallback — a recycling bin — is less clean than it looks: fuel burned and unknown chemicals released to maybe melt it back into something new. There wasn't a place to just hand a stack of clean containers to someone who could use them. That gap became this.
Privacy, built in
A listing's pin marks the neighborhood, never the address. Every location is shifted by a random few hundred metres before it's saved — the exact spot is never stored.
Your email address is never shown to anyone, anywhere on the site. Buyers and sellers message each other through the site itself; only your display name is public.
Photos are re-processed before they're stored, which strips the location data most phones quietly attach to pictures.
We're an early beta — looking for people with containers to give away, and people who want them.
Started in Humboldt County, California — now open to anyone, anywhere.
We'd love to hear from you.For organizations
Zero-waste groups, repair cafés, community fridges, school and library programs — if keeping usable plastic out of the landfill is already part of what you do, we'd like to hear from you. No ads, no fees, nothing to buy.
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