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  "company": "Trashie",
  "headline": "Trashie launches $35 toy take-back service, extending textile take-back into new category.",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
  "source_url": "https://www.modernretail.co/operations/trashie-looks-to-tackle-toy-waste-with-new-35-service/",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ SILVER · Category expansion via circular service · Trashie\n\nTrashie launches $35 toy take-back service, extending textile take-back into new category.\n\nThis is elegant because Trashie did not have to invent a new supply chain or customer base. They took an existing model (textile take-back), proved it worked, and applied it to a higher-friction category (toys, which are bulkier and more wasteful). The $35 price point tells you they are not racing to scale—they are building a sticky retention service. A small DTC brand can do this in a weekend: offer to take back past purchases, resell them, and credit the customer against future orders.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/trashie-2026-06-25t06-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/trashie-2026-06-25t06-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/trashie-2026-06-25t06-4",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ SILVER · Category expansion via circular service · Trashie\n\nTrashie launches $35 toy take-back service, extending textile take-back into new category.\n\nThis is elegant because Trashie did not have to invent a new supply chain or customer base. They took an existing model (textile take-back), proved it worked, and applied it to a higher-friction category (toys, which are bulkier and more wasteful). The $35 price point tells you they are not racing to scale—they are building a sticky retention service. A small DTC brand can do this in a weekend: offer to take back past purchases, resell them, and credit the customer against future orders.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/trashie-2026-06-25t06-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/trashie-2026-06-25t06-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/trashie-2026-06-25t06-4",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ SILVER · Category expansion via circular service · Trashie\n\nTrashie launches $35 toy take-back service, extending textile take-back into new category.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/trashie-2026-06-25t06-4",
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      "title": "Trashie launches $35 toy take-back service, extending textile take-back into new category.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nPer Modern Retail, Trashie, which ran a textile take-back program since 2024, is moving into toys—a category the company identified as ripe for circular infrastructure.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if your brand has built a circular service around one category, the play is to expand to an adjacent high-frequency category where the same customer pain exists. Trashie's textile program proved customers will pay for take-back if convenience and transparency are baked in. The move to toys is not a new business—it is proof that the service layer works and can be repeated. For a physical-product brand, this is a retention expansion: if you ship to a customer monthly, offer them a take-back service for related items at month three.\nWhat that means for you: This is elegant because Trashie did not have to invent a new supply chain or customer base. They took an existing model (textile take-back), proved it worked, and applied it to a higher-friction category (toys, which are bulkier and more wasteful). The $35 price point tells you they are not racing to scale—they are building a sticky retention service. A small DTC brand can do this in a weekend: offer to take back past purchases, resell them, and credit the customer against future orders.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/operations/trashie-looks-to-tackle-toy-waste-with-new-35-service/.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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