# Kristy Caylor

> Kristy Caylor is the founder and CEO of Trashie, the first scaled recycling-and-rewards platform in the US, whose internet-famous Take Back Bag lets people stuff a closet's worth of unwanted clothes and old gadgets into a prepaid mailer and get rewarded in TrashieCash to spend at places like Sephora and Uber Eats. An industrial engineer by training who spent two decades in fashion (Gap, Banana Republic Japan, Gap's Product RED, and the ethical-luxury label Maiyet she co-founded), Caylor built Trashie out of For Days, the circular apparel brand she launched in 2018. Her bet is that sustainability wins when it is convenient and fun rather than guilt-driven, and the numbers back her: hundreds of thousands of bags sold and millions of items kept out of landfills.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Trashie
- **Organizations:** Trashie, For Days, Maiyet, CERCI Collective, Band of Outsiders, Gap Inc.
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. Industrial Engineering (minor in Fine Arts Painting), Northwestern University, MBA, Entrepreneurship and Finance, USC Marshall School of Business
- **Known for:** Founder & CEO of Trashie, first scaled recycling-and-rewards platform in the US, Sold 865K+ Take Back Bags and diverted 11.4M+ items from landfills, Kept 95% of received items from landfill through reuse or responsible recycling

## Career timeline

- **2000s** — Launched and grew businesses at Gap Inc., including Banana Republic Petites and Banana Republic Japan
- **2006-2008** — Helped lead Gap's Product (RED) division
- **2010** — Co-founded ethical-luxury brand Maiyet; served as President and Creative Director, launched on the Paris runway
- **2016** — Co-founded CERCI Collective, focused on technology for supply-chain efficiency and sustainability
- **2018** — Launched For Days, the first fully circular apparel brand and a zero-waste fashion company
- **2023** — Founded Trashie, the first scaled recycling-and-rewards platform in the US
- **2026** — Trashie raised a $10M Series A (last raised March 2026)

## Achievements

- Founder & CEO of Trashie, first scaled recycling-and-rewards platform in the US
- Sold 865K+ Take Back Bags and diverted 11.4M+ items from landfills
- Kept 95% of received items from landfill through reuse or responsible recycling
- Co-founded Maiyet, sold at Barneys, Net-a-Porter, Selfridges, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Saks
- Glossy 50: Fashion Digital Front Runners (2018)
- Goldman Sachs' Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs (2019)
- Fast Company Innovation by Design & World Changing Ideas (2019); Brands That Matter (2022)
- Entrepreneur's 100 Women of Influence (2022)
- Worth Magazine's Worthy 100 (2023)
- Member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Consumerism; CFDA member

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Trashie raised a $10M Series A round
- **2025-06** — Trashie expanded into e-waste recycling, citing that only 12.5% of e-waste is recycled

## Links

- Website: https://trashie.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristycaylor/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fordaysfordays

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Last updated: 2026-07-01