# How can you throw away a garbage can?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-throw-away-a-garbage-can/76178>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 14, 2001, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-throw-away-a-garbage-can/76178 "2001-08-14T11:59:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![spacecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@spacecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spacecat)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-throw-away-a-garbage-can/76178/21 "2001-08-14T23:30:29Z")

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This thread is funny to me, because a few times, the garbage collector threw our trash cans into the truck along with the trash for no good reason at all.

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-throw-away-a-garbage-can/76178/22 "2001-08-15T00:19:48Z")

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As funneefarmer said, goto the following link from 1999. It has some funny methods to try.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=4887](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=4887)

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-throw-away-a-garbage-can/76178/23 "2001-08-15T01:51:08Z")

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Just put them in really big trash bags.

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**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-throw-away-a-garbage-can/76178/24 "2001-08-15T11:58:37Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Munch \*  
> \*\*Just put them in really big trash bags. \*\*

😃 Best solution so far!

I’d be careful about putting trash in apartment complex dumpsters, though. They get pretty ticked off about people doing that, plus in many cities it’s illegal.

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**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-throw-away-a-garbage-can/76178/25 "2001-08-15T14:20:32Z")

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When I had to get rid of my no-longer-raccoon-proof can, I duct taped the lid shut and left a note. “Please take the whole can.”

It worked the first try.  
-Rue.

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