To put circular living into motion.
Because passing things on should be simple.
Access more.
Consume less.
Since 2014, it’s been Sellpy’s mission to make second hand accessible to everyone. By making it easy and hassle-free to both buy and sell pre-owned items, we’ve already helped more than 30 million items find a new home.
The platform is designed to make circular consumption just as convenient as buying new. Most of what you’ll find on Sellpy comes from private sellers, but on occasion we do partner with selected companies to give their unsold goods a second hand.
Finally we show the impact of these choices by creating estimates on the average water and CO2 required to produce similar products, and weigh the scales.
Together we have saved:
282,956
tonnes of carbon dioxide
equal to...
…286,974 flights between London and New York
111,678
million liters of water
equal to...
…what's needed to produce 797,702,902 cups of coffee
The Sellpy footprint.
But all of this is nice ‘fluff’ unless we acknowledge our own greenhouse gas emissions. Naturally, the logistics required to both handle and sell items means we generate emissions too. We call it the Sellpy footprint, and it keeps a pulse on our emissions - from our own operations to our external partners - giving an open, nuanced, and accurate picture of our impact. We also align our work with the EU Waste Hierarchy which shows how reuse can often be even more impactful than recycling. By keeping an item in its original form, we avoid substantial amounts of water and carbon required to produce something new. Even when we account for our own shipping + packaging, pre-owned still prevails as one of the most effective ways to reduce one's carbon footprint.
Questions and answers
Every day, we handle thousands of items in our warehouses, and our goal is to send them out in the same condition they arrived. To protect the items and ensure safe shipping, we have carefully selected packaging together with our partners that meets high standards – such as our iconic blue Sellpy bag made from 100% recycled material and the clear plastic bag that allows for visual quality checks. Our aim is for this bag to become fully recyclable as well.
At Sellpy, we take our climate impact seriously and work actively to reduce our own. By encouraging more people to buy and sell second-hand, we extend the lifespan of products that would otherwise risk becoming waste. We invest in solar panels to make our warehouses more energy-efficient and work with our partners to make both packaging and deliveries more sustainable – for example, with reusable paper bags and fossil-free transport where possible.
We take responsibility for reducing the climate impact of our services, but we know our customers also want to make a difference. Here are a few simple tips:
As a seller – fill each Sellpy bag as much as possible and send in all the bags you’ve ordered. Double-check your address, door code, and phone number to ensure smooth pickup.
As a buyer – try to place fewer orders with more items in each. And if your order is delivered to a pickup point, make sure to collect it on time.
