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We are a zero-waste, local online grocery service delivering everything from meal-kits, ready-to-eat-food, snacks, pantry items, cleaning supplies, beverages, to pet food and more, all with no trash. We are also an evolving platform that provides the tech and infrastructure for brands to adopt a trashless business model. 

As the world increasingly sees the effects of man-made climate change - forest fires in the West, hurricanes on the East Coast, rising oceans and more -  the majority of people around the country say they support prioritizing climate policy, with more than two-thirds saying the federal government is doing too little.

But in everyday busy modern lives, it seems to us that conscious consumption can be next to impossible. With single-use plastics at every turn, most grocery stores sourcing from massive factory farms, we believe many consumers have few options that are also convenient — even though our assumption is many feel strongly about protecting the environment.

Trashless is bringing consumers a guilt-free shopping experience for high quality sustainable products, and a hub for environmentally conscious consumption free of single-use packaging.

Our service is reducing our collective carbon footprint, while offering lower prices and healthier, local options for consumers.

Our TAM is the U.S. food retail industry, where there are over 38K stores averaging over $17M in revenue each year.

When combined with the wide spectrum of polls showing support for climate friendly products and the recent surge in growth of environmentally sustainable products in the consumer packaged goods market, we are well positioned to capture the market.

Polls show consumers increasingly more focused on protecting the environment with their every day decisions and moving toward a more sustainable life, and our platform provides them with the necessary infrastructure to achieve that goal. 

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, now more than ever, consumers want things delivered to their door. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a significant increase in packaging waste - boxes within boxes, meal kits delivered from long distances with nonrecyclable insulation, coolant bags, plastic wrapping and more. Consumers want to lower their carbon footprint, without losing the convenience of delivery. We believe these trends put us in a good position to build a strong, fast growth business.

When we relaunched in October 2019, after a brief pause to operationally restructure and rebrand our company, we had a fully mature digital platform - ready to scale, product line fully streamlined, operationally optimized, and marketing-channels ready for a wider deployment.

Over the last few years, we have perfected the cycle of sourcing sustainably produced local ingredients, delivering them in reusable packaging, collecting it back up, sanitizing it and repeating this process over and over again - affordably. Now we are ready to expand to new markets via a lean model. 

We were also featured in Forbes in 2020 as a positive move towards sustainable lifestyles. We’ve filed for trademarks for ‘Trashless’ and ‘The Milkman for Everything’. 

Although we offer many amazing environmentally-friendly options for consumers, we are more than just a sustainable product-focused business: we’re offering a new truly environmentally-focused paradigm - not only for consumers but also for other brands to leverage our infrastructure to create a Trashless society.

Our platform, Trashless.com, enables various entities to buy and sell with each other, driving down the cost of sustainable products and creating a hub for consumers and vendors to congregate.

This testimonial may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is no guarantee of future performance or success.

This testimonial may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is no guarantee of future performance or success.

This testimonial may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is no guarantee of future performance or success.

We operate as a traditional B2C ecommerce company, buying and producing in wholesale and selling at retail.

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We are able to take in recurring revenue streams from planned deliveries and subscription plans, which has helped us maintain high recurring revenue per delivery, while bringing down our average cost per delivery (not including cost of goods) to around $3.50.

Since we have no retail location, we are able to keep overhead low by renting out cheap warehouses, which we can use 24/7 to get the most out of our investments.

Our competitors are grocers (online and physical stores) and subscription meal services that produce huge amounts of packaging waste and have an environmentally unsustainable supply chain. 

For us, sustainability is our whole mission. That’s why in addition to our wide range of everyday products, we also offer unique sustainability services like dead battery pick up, compost, and pet food bag pick up from animal adoption centers, for free or a nominal fee.

We are making solid progress to achieve profitability in the Greater Austin area by the end of 2020, while expanding the product line. 

Through this raise we plan to use the capital to expand into the Houston, Dallas and San Antonio markets in early 2021, which would significantly increase our TAM and kick in powerful network effects on both the supply and the demand side. 

Based on learnings, capital availability and economic conditions, we plan to start expansion beyond Texas in the second half of 2021, with a lean operational model, low customer acquisition costs and increasingly cheaper procurement costs because of higher buying power. We want to continue scaling as large as possible, because we believe in our mission and know that the better we do as a company, the better it will be for consumers and the planet. 

Actual plans for where and when we expand will be based on further research, capital availability, economic environment, and partnership opportunities.

We are a team with a diverse set of experiences, ranging from years in tech, operations, culinary arts, content development, analytics, and customer support.

The one thing that brings us all together is a sense of purpose to give back to our communities by providing them with an opportunity to treat the planet better.

We like to say that our best ‘advisors’ are our customers and data. In today’s cutthroat business climate, you don’t get too far without data-backed decisions, so while we are laser-focused on the environment, we understand none of it matters if people aren’t clicking that order button.

We are already seeing forest fires, rising oceans, volatile weather, and mass extinctions as a result of man-made climate change, and if we don’t do this now we will all pay the price.

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Join us as we up-end the single-use plastic world and provide consumers with a sustainable option they crave, and help all of us live healthy, environmentally conscious lives.