The Take Back Bag

Bag color may vary.

The Take Back Bag makes it easy to keep your unwanted clothing and textiles from ending up in landfills. Trashie's innovative sorting and grading system takes it from there, weeding out the trash and getting over 90% of the unwanted clothing we collect to the next right place.

Here’s what to do:

Step 1: Order a Take Back Bag on Grove
Clean out your closet and fill your bag with up to 15 lbs of unwanted clothes, outerwear, shoes, handbags, sheets and towels. Women’s, Men’s or Kids, we take it all – just wash it first!

Step 2: Send it back for Free
Register your bag using the QR code on the bag, get a prepaid shipping label, and drop it off at USPS.

Step 3: Get your reward.
Earn TrashieCash™ with every bag you register and send back:

• Bag 1: $5
• Bags 2–4: $2 each
• Bag 5: get a $15 bonus
• Five cleanouts = $26 back in your pocket

Redeem your TrashieCash™ for gift cards at trashie.io

What will you take?
We accept all apparel items and socks, underwear, sheets, pillow cases, towels, linens, shoes, and handbags in any condition. Ripped, torn or stained, your oldies will get a new life with the help of our recycling partners and be diverted from landfills.

What’s the impact of the Take Back Bag?
Each Take Back Bag saves 1596 gallons of water, 151 pounds of CO2 emissions, and 15 pounds of fashion waste from landfill.

Why is it better to use a Take Back Bag than other donation options?
85% of ALL textiles end up in landfills and the average American throws away 80lbs of clothing a year. That includes resale, recycling, and donation efforts.
If you send used items to For Days, they go through a sorting and grading process with our recycling partners to determine their next best life.

What happens to items sent back in the Take Back Bag?
90%+ of the items we take back have a second life.
74% of what we take back is sorted and graded for reuse.
15-22% of what we take back goes to fiber recycling: For items that don’t meet quality standards for reuse, we utilize fiber recycling technology to keep as much as possible in-use and out of the landfill.
5-10% of all Take Back Bag items are sadly, truly trash (think: plastic hangers), and sent to a responsibly managed landfill.