Trashie
5 known investors
Trashie is a service that enables consumers to clean out their closets by mailing clothing and accessories in prepaid bags, which are then sorted, resold, recycled, or donated, with users earning cash rewards for each bag submitted. The company diverts textiles from landfills through a membership model targeting individuals seeking convenient textile disposal with financial incentives.
Also known as Trashie
Investors · 5
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Trashie operates a consumer mail-in take-back service for closet and household clutter. Customers order a Take Back Bag or Tech Box, fill it with items such as clothes, shoes, accessories and home textiles — the company states more than 50 item types are accepted with no pre-sorting required — then scan a QR code and drop the package with a mail carrier of their choice. Bags ship within 24 hours of ordering and arrive in roughly 10 to 14 days, and rewards are credited to the customer's account on the day of drop-off.
Received items are sorted across more than 600 categories so that goods can be re-homed or recycled; the company states 95% of what it receives is repurposed, reused or recycled, and that it makes charitable contributions using cash proceeds. Its marketing contrasts this with traditional donation channels, asserting that 85% of donated material still ends up in landfill. Customers earn a branded rewards currency, TrashieCash, redeemable with retail partners; the site references brands including Sephora, Nike and Starbucks as redemption destinations, alongside a Chrome extension and "Instant Deals" surface for using rewards.
Business model
Trashie charges consumers for take-back packaging and membership rather than paying for inbound goods: a $20 single Take Back Bag, a $98 four-bag Mega Kit with a tech box, or a $68-per-year Unlimited membership (promoted at $48 during a sale) covering unlimited bags and tech boxes with free shipping. Collected items are sorted for resale, reuse, recycling or re-homing, and cash proceeds fund charitable contributions. Customers are rewarded in TrashieCash, a rewards currency redeemable at retail partners, with escalating milestone jackpots ($5 for bag 1, $15 at bag 5, $34 at bag 10, $50 at bag 25) designed so that a member's cumulative rewards equal the $68 membership fee by the tenth bag.
Revenue comes from consumer purchases of take-back kits and annual subscriptions ($20 single bag, $98 Mega Kit, $68/year Unlimited membership), plus value recovered from the sorted, resold and recycled items sent in by customers.
Traction
The company publishes customer testimonials describing repeat use, multi-bag clean-outs and adoption of the annual membership, and states that 95% of received material is repurposed, reused or recycled across 600+ sorting categories.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
Trashie positions itself against traditional donation drop-off centers, citing that 85% of donated goods still reach landfill, and frames its differentiator as end-to-end sorting so that nearly everything received finds a next use.
Technology
The service uses QR-code-based prepaid shipping labels scanned at drop-off with any mail carrier, an app and web account where bags are registered and rewards are credited same-day, a downstream sorting operation spanning more than 600 item categories, and a TrashieCash rewards ledger with a browser extension and deals interface for redemption.
Go-to-market
Direct-to-consumer online sales through trashie.io, with subscription upsell from single-bag trials, promotional discounting (a July 4 offer of $20 off the Unlimited membership), customer testimonials, a mobile app for registering bags, a Chrome extension, and a rewards marketplace of retail brand offers that drives repeat engagement.
Individual consumers in the United States seeking a convenient way to clear out clothing, shoes, accessories, home textiles and small electronics from home, including repeat users motivated by cash-back rewards and landfill diversion.
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Key figures
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Competitors · 3
by search overlap
Companies competing with Trashie for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
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primary sources listed
- Trashietrashie.io · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Trashie do?
- Trashie is a mail-in take-back service for clothing, textiles and tech that pays users cash-back rewards per bag.
- Who are Trashie's investors?
- Trashie's investors include Connecticut Innovations, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Portfolia, Alumni Ventures, Congruent Ventures.