Hello investors and followers - we hope your 2021 has started off on a great note! 

In 2018, a jaw-dropping 7.9 billion units of rigid plastic were created just for beauty and personal care products (Source). Most of it, not recyclable. 

Trashless recently took a serious step to take this on, bringing on over 30 amazing personal care products, each with dozens of options to our growing customer base through a new brand partner, Luxe Refill. Mostly produced locally using premium natural ingredients, beautifully packaged in reusable containers and delivered trashlessly - this product line is off to a great start. 

The ecommerce segment of the personal care products is about $35 billion, growing at about 10% year over year (source). When shipping materials are considered, the packaging waste toll goes up further. With Trashless, these products are delivered in 100% zero-waste packaging. 

Considering these products are made from natural ingredients, locally sourced when possible, the positive ecological impact goes up even further. 

We look forward to promote and grow this new category, in the process attracting a legion of new environmentally conscious consumers - a fast growing segment. 

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Hey everyone! Happy Holidays! 

Just in time for the festive season, our Soda Maker 60L Cylinder Refill Service, CO2 for YOU went into full service! 

There is a lot of rightful consternation about the ecological impact of water sold in plastic bottles. When something is almost FREE coming out the faucet and can be easily filtered, and refilled into reusable bottles, why buy plastic bottles? That’s pretty straightforward. 

But, when it comes to sparkling water, it’s not so straightforward. How to get CO2 - a gas that is in the air we breathe, into the water so it becomes sparkling - in a zero-waste way that is also easy, affordable and convenient? 

This is clearly not so easy, resulting in consumers in the US purchasing $24.5 billion worth of sparkling water each year, growing at an annual rate of 11.8% (Source)! The carbon footprint of this is staggering: The production, transportation, discarding, recycling of all that packaging material, plus the sourcing, packaging and transportation of what is essentially water and available almost everywhere.  

Enter home soda makers, such as Soda Stream, Drinkmate and other brands. They work great! But what happens when the CO2 in them runs out? This is where the rub is - ecologically, financially (for the consumer) and in terms of convenience. The choices are to take it to local stores who are usually out (not convenient, and they are usually out). Or put them in a box and ship them long distance, and receive refilled ones the same way - the air we breathe needn’t be transported on planes in heavy tanks! 

Enter Trashless’ CO2 for YOU - a local 60L soda maker cylinder refill delivery service - the most convenient, environmentally friendly and cheapest way to make your drinks fizzy. 

Here’s why CO2 for YOU is the best way for consumers to add fizz to their drinks:

Cheapest: At $14.99, including free delivery for a refill, and $29.99 for a new cylinder - this is the cheapest way to fizz up your drinks. That’s about 10c per 12 fl.oz of fizz (will vary based on the amount of fizz you add). 

Most Environmentally Friendly: Beats plastic bottles (uggh!), aluminum cans (boo!), long distance shipping of refilled cylinders (ridiculous!), refilling at stores (umm, why do that!?). 

Most Convenient: No boxes to crush or repack, never run out, fizz up to the amount you want, and more! 

Also behold our specially curated collection of locally made Artisanal Syrups that are perfect for refreshing drinks - alcoholic or non-alcoholic. More syrups, including Real Sugar Cola, Root Beer, and even Coca Cola coming soon! 

Learn more about CO2 for YOU at www.trashless.com/co2 

In terms of our business model, services like these are driving more customers to us, building greater retention and spawning more complimentary local partnerships (in this case, with local gas suppliers, small syrup producers and more), and the margins are great because so many costs (such as delivery) are spread across all our products and services. 

Hey investors and followers! 

Thank you for your continued support for our campaign - we appreciate it. 

Did you know that 2 billion pizza boxes are used in the US every year. And it takes millions of trees to produce those pizza boxes - most of which are not recyclable because of the grease on them. Wow! 

We are on a mission to stop this destruction, while creating the Holy Grail of Pizza. 

Magic Pizza Kits (www.trashless.com/pizza) are our newest product line that’s already getting rave reviews. Here’s how this is a disruptive innovation in a mega space ($30B worth of pizzas sold in the US every year, and it is the food category most ordered for delivery) that hasn't seen much innovation in a while. 

Healthy, Sustainable Pizza, Thanks to the Highest Possible Quality, Local Ingredients: Hand-tossed crust milled locally from heirloom grains - supporting regenerative agriculture; gourmet cheese blends; and fresh sauces and toppings using produce and meats from local farms. Healthy and Pizza are 2 words that rarely go together. Now they do. It’s pizza you can eat every day.  

Fast & Easy: 3 minutes of prep, 15 in the oven: Making customers feel like Italian pizza chefs, while getting comfortable in the kitchen.  

Zero-waste: These kits are delivered trashlessly. 

Competitively Priced: The price is the best part - at about the same as a typical pizza from a local pizza store, while maintaining healthy margins for us. This is possible because of our business and operational model highlighted above on the campaign page. 

Safer: During these pandemic times, the safest food is the food you make yourself. 

We look forward to rapidly growing this product line, bringing the Trashless experience to a whole new audience!

Meanwhile, we also:

• Received some coverage in the Austin Business Journal in anticipation of our roll out in Dallas. 

• Fully rolled out our new site - mostly without a hitch. 

• And made deliveries Free - no minimums, no commitment.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Yogesh and the rest of the Trashless team

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Thank you early investors for a great start to our campaign! 

Political choices and governmental action are a big part of what needs to be done to reverse climate change. Equally important, perhaps even more, are the choices we all make everyday - both as consumers, and solutions we invest in - individually and as a society. Trashless is aiming to create a new sustainable consumption paradigm - one that will take a while to set in - just like electric vehicles, renewable energy and others. It may take a while, but with your participation, we will get there. Collectively, if you believe the scientists, we don’t really have a choice. 

While our country sorts out the political situation it’s found itself in, we keep marching on - and we hope you will join us!  

Welcome to the Trashless campaign! We thank everyone who has taken the time to look through it, favorited it and invested. 

Climate change is real, and packaging waste is a big contributor to it. Trashless is creating a comprehensive solution from the ground up, bringing sustainability to modern lifestyles. We are excited that now anyone who believes in this vision can invest us through this campaign - helping us create the future of local, sustainable, zero-waste commerce.

We look forward to engaging with you and having you on board!