Smash My Trash is a franchise where a truck with a hydraulic crane compacts industrial dumpsters, reducing pickup frequency and splitting the cost savings with the client. ✦ AI generated
Kevin · My First Million · 2026-08-19 · original ↗
starts at this moment · 18:19
“Smash My Trash. Explain.”
Yeah. So, the basic concept is companies that produce a lot of trash, industrial businesses, warehouses, factories, things like that, throw away a lot of stuff in these open top dumpsters that are these rectangles that hold like 40 cubic yards of stuff. The pricing model is that every time you fill it up and you need a new one, you have to get it replaced. And that can cost like $1,000. Yeah. I used to like get on top of ours and like jump up and down. That's it. Imagine if a giant thing came and smashed the trash down. I thought I was going to like hire someone to come and jump out the trash for me. That was it. No. So, we have these trucks that back up to the dumpster. Like you said, Sean, there's a crane on the back with this spinning spike yarn that goes in, pushes the trash down. The deal is basically, let's say you get 10 pickups a month, 1,000 bucks. That's $10,000 a month you're spending on trash. We'll get you down to just round numbers, five, and we'll split the savings with you.
verbatim transcript · starts at 18:19
18:01my business about 2 3 weeks ago. >> That's what I sold it for. Starter business on the board. >> Wait, so you are >> You just exited at 1.8. >> Just exited at 1.8. Yeah. >> What did you sell for $1.8 million? >> Uh, it was a franchise business called Smash My Trash. >> Smash My Trash. >> I've heard of this. Have you heard this before? How to smash my trash?
18:19>> Explain. >> Yeah. So, the basic concept is companies that produce a lot of trash, industrial businesses, warehouses, factories, things like that, throw away a lot of stuff in these open top dumpsters that are these rectangles that hold like 40 cubic yards of stuff. The pricing model is that every time you fill it up and you need a new one, you have to get it replaced. And that can cost like $1,000.
18:39>> Yeah. I used to like get on top of ours and like jump up and down. >> That's it. >> Imagine if a giant thing came and smashed the trash down. I thought I was going to like hire someone to come and jump out the trash for me. >> That was it. No. So, we have these trucks that back up to the dumpster. Like you said, Sean, there's a crane on
18:55the back with this spinning spike yarn that goes in, pushes the trash down. The deal is basically, let's say you get 10 pickups a month, 1,000 bucks. That's $10,000 a month you're spending on trash. We'll get you down to just round numbers, five, and we'll split the savings with you. >> Wait, so one a large company will spend 10 grand a month in trash? >> Yeah. Or more?
19:14>> Who? Like a warehouse? big factories, production facilities in like agricultural California is where I was doing a lot of work. >> Wow. >> Companies. >> So, these are like you just go to the parking lot, there's a huge dumpster back there. That's that was the opportunity is to >> smash the trash down. So, you have to do less pickups per per thing cuz you're paying per pickup.
19:35>> That's it. >> And do smash smashing trucks exist already? >> There's a new concept. So, it's a franchise. This guy came up with the idea, started growing fast, decided to franchise it. So, these didn't really exist. They exist in Europe, but they're like mounted to the side of the building. So, those companies would back the dumpster up. So, the insight was throw these things on a truck, have them