Krets

Sell or give away your empties from your doorstep

A local buyer comes for your bottles and cans, pays at the door, and takes them to a depot.

Works with
  • CDS Vic VIC
  • Return and Earn NSW
  • Containers for Change QLD · WA
  • Recycle Rewards TAS
  • Cash for Containers NT
  • Container Deposit Scheme SA · ACT
Sell my empties
  1. 1Sell my empties
  2. 2Hand them over at the door
  3. 3Get paid on the spot
A woman in her front yard hands a paper bag of bottles and cans to a buyer

Is there a buyer near you?

Type your suburb to see how many buyers pick up there.

Pick up bottles and cans when you want, and claim the refund yourself

  1. People near you post their bottles and cans, and what they want for them.
  2. You tap one to take it, and go at the time they chose.
  3. Count together, pay them, then return the containers for the government refund.

Not sure about the app? Ask a family member to sign you up, then it is three taps a pickup.

Australia throws away about 4 billion 10c containers a year

The average Australian gets through about 490 a year, close to 13 billion nationally. Depending on the state, only about 60 to 70% ever come back for the refund. The rest go in the kerbside bin, to landfill or onto the street. Krets is the few minutes it takes to hand yours over instead of taking them to a refund point.

Per-person figure calculated from the Australian Government's National Waste and Resource Recovery Report 2024. Return rates from the schemes' own reports, such as CDS Vic's 2024–25 report. The national total is an estimate.

4 billion
containers wasted in Australia every year
1 in 3
never returned for the refund
2,000
a year for a household of four, about $140 at 7c each
10c
government refund per container, claimed by the buyer when they return them

Where it works

Krets works anywhere in Australia with a container refund scheme. How quickly someone claims your pickup depends on how many buyers are nearby.

Most drink containers between 150 mL and 3 L carry a 10c government refund in every state and territory. The scheme is called CDS Vic in Victoria, Return and Earn in NSW, Containers for Change in Queensland and WA, Recycle Rewards in Tasmania, Cash for Containers in the NT, and the Container Deposit Scheme in SA and the ACT. What you can return →

Sell my empties