Trashie’s Take Back Bag: A Rewarding Way to Recycle Old ClothesTrashie’s Take Back Bag: A Rewarding Way to Recycle Old Clothes Trashie, a fast-growing startup, has introduced a convenient and lucrative way to dispose of unwanted clothing, sneakers, towels, and sheets. The Take Back Bag, available at Walmart, offers a simple process for recycling these items. Rewards Platform: Upon sending a filled Take Back Bag to Trashie’s recycling center, users receive $30 in “Trashie Cash.” This reward can be redeemed for discounts on movie tickets, meals, sneakers, and more. The list of available deals is updated weekly. Costs: Each Take Back Bag costs $20 upfront, but the $30 reward effectively covers this cost. Additionally, shipping is included. Eligible Items: The Take Back Bag accepts a wide range of textile items, including clothing, winter coats, shoes, pillowcases, backpacks, and handbags. Avoid items with excessive biohazards or soil contamination. Recycling Process: Trashie sorts and inspects the items in each bag, diverting approximately 90% from landfills. About 70% of the items are reused globally, while 20% are recycled into new fibers. All waste bags are also recycled. Environmental Impact: Trashie claims that each Take Back Bag prevents 6.8 kilos of textile waste from ending up in landfills, reducing carbon emissions equivalent to not burning 34 kilos of coal. About 85% of textiles end up in landfills annually, so even small recycling efforts can make a significant impact. How to Participate: 1. Purchase a Take Back Bag from Walmart. 2. Fill it with unwanted textiles. 3. Send the bag back to Trashie’s recycling center (shipping included). 4. Receive $30 in Trashie Cash to use for discounts on various goods and services.
There’s a new way to get rid of your old clothes: it comes in a big, brightly colored bag, and it pays off big time.
Fast-growing startup Trashie launched the Take Back Bag last year, and it’s been a huge hit ever since. You can now even buy the bags at Walmart.
So how does it work? All you have to do is bag up your old clothes, sneakers, towels, and even sheets that you want to throw away, send them back to Trashie’s recycling center, and the team will do their magic from there. And you’ll get access to Trashie’s rewards platform in the process.
Let’s dive into the details 
What does the reward system entail?
Once you turn in your Take Back Bag full of clothes, you’ll receive $30 in “Trashie Cash” that you can use to get discounts on movie tickets at AMC Theatres, meals at HelloFresh, sneakers at Allbirds, and more.
The list is long, but supplies are limited, especially for popular deals. Trashie recommends users check back weekly to see what new deals are available.
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Are there costs attached?
Each Take Back Bag costs $20 up front. Once you fill and send off that big neon bag (shipping included), you’ll get that $30 in rewards. Bonus: You won’t have a huge pile of old clothes in your closet anymore.
What can be put in these bags?
Clothes you want to get rid of, winter coats, sweaters and socks with holes in them, old shoes, pillowcases, bathrobes, backpacks, handbags, and even your old Halloween costume. And that’s just the beginning of the list.
“Anything that really fits in the bag… as long as it doesn’t have an extreme biohazard or soil or something extreme that we can’t recycle,” Trashie CEO Kristy Caylor explained in a recent conversation with TCD.
What happens after I send my Take Back Bag?
The Trashie team inspects and sorts the items in your bag into more than 250 categories, ensuring that approximately 90% of all donations are diverted from landfills. According to the company’s website, approximately 70% of items are reused globally, while more than 20% are recycled into new fibers for things like pet bedding.
In addition, Trashie recycles all returned waste bags.
How do I help the planet with this program?
According to Trashie, each Take Back Bag prevents 6.8 kilos of textile waste from ending up in landfills.
Or, to put it another way: that’s over 68 kilos of diverted CO2, which is equivalent to *not* burning 34 kilos of coal.
In short: About 85% of all textiles end up in landfills each year, so even small steps we can take by bagging items for recycling programs like Trashie’s can help. And a Trashie Cash reward wouldn’t hurt either.
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