Put a Lid on It

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

We have a plastic garbage bin that, somewhere along the way, lost its lid. We live on a block with several restaurants and a persistent rodent problem, so this is a Bad Thing.

Tags had lids that would fit our can, but wouldn't sell us one without selling us another garbage can. (We have one. Did I mention?) Further conversation revealed that this comes up pretty frequently there.

Is there anywhere remotely local that will sell us just a lid?

Comments

[enhf94.livejournal.com]

I've tried in the past and failed also.

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

I hope you find an answer, as we need to replace several lids for our garbage cans

[jadelennox]

Shattuck in Arlington Center will, if you are very polite, and they happen to have more lids in stock than they have garbage cans, sell you one. At least, I have successfully managed to buy lids from them I think the total of twice.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

check with the mfr too -- i managed to get not one but two replacement lids for mine when a similar fate befell it...

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Damn, I might have been able to help you. A trash can of mine blew away, but the lid was still on my deck. Alas, I put it in the recycling when I got a new trash can plus lid. Maybe someone else is in the same kind of predicament but hasn't yet gotten rid of the lid?

[ron_newman]

I suggest asking on Somerville Freecycle if someone has an extra one they don't need. You'll need to describe exactly what you are looking for.

[bettyw.livejournal.com]

I sense an entrepreneurial opportunity: replacement covers made out of some tough fabric (Tyvek?) with elastic around the edge like a shower cap so they fit on variously-sized cans.

I don't have the bandwidth for such a project, but if someone does I'll be happy to support your Kickstarter project!

[abilouise.livejournal.com]

Would something like this be rat-proof if it was stretchy?

[fefie.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

i don't know, what happens on trash day? i guess you could take the "lids" off when you put the can out and take them in the house with you and bring them back out later?

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Tyvek will degrade over time when exposed to the elements :\ But there is probably some kind of fabric that would work and also be varmint-proof.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I've never found them; about ten years ago I gave up and bought one of the big rectangular garbage cans with a hinged lid.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

I was about to suggest the same thing. Hinged lids = never lost lid.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

in RI we now have these bins for both recycling and trash. at my boyfriend's in cambridge they finally have them for recycling, hopefully maybe they'll eventually get trash ones as well? many of the cans don't have lids, and frankly, having dinky one family garbage cans for at least 2 or 3 apartment buildings simply does not cut it half the time. (so trash is left in cans without lids as they don't fit on, rather than lugging the trash back up into the apt.)

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of plastic garbage can lids in the garage and no apparent cans that they go with (moved here last year, so they're not technically mine, but no one will miss one). If it fits your can, you're welcome to it. I'll email you w/ more info.

[laryu.livejournal.com]

I may have extras. One round, the other rectangular'ish. Let me know if you're interested and what rough dimensions you're looking for.

[keshwyn]

Somerville Home Depot is the same way. This is why I shock-corded the lid on to the latest can; got very tired of losing the lids. (We lost four.)

[fefie.livejournal.com]

Nothing to add except sympathy. The same thing happened to me on two trash cans. (Tags still sells the trash can with lid but neither Tags nor Rubbermaid would sell me just the lid. And I searched quite a while online for the lid without success.)

[m00n.livejournal.com]

I think if you find them you should start selling them out of a cart right in front of Tags as this is just ridiculous.

not local, and they cost a bit

[mamabunny72.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, I searched 'trash can lid' on ebay. The search yielded 884 results, but many listings are for the can and the lid; some are just for the lid, but it depends on what kind of trash can it's for. "Rubbermaid trash can lid" yielded 42 listings, but wow, they ask for a lot!

Re: not local, and they cost a bit

[fefie.livejournal.com]

Also there are a bunch of different kinds of Rubbermaid cans that vary in size at the top, so lids are not often interchangeable. (I know more than I care to about this topic, searching for replacement lids myself.)

Re: not local, and they cost a bit

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

i imagine shipping something like that would also be tricky.

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

You're part of Somerville's longstanding Involuntary Trash Can Lid Time Share Program. Participants enter the ITCLTSP by having their trash can lid wander off, whether because another participant has decided to invite them into the program or because it's just a windy trash day. You are then expected to keep the ITCLTSP going by finding someone else's can lid and stealing it; they, in turn, will steal someone else's.

In accordance with the quantity theory of trash can lids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity_theory_of_money#Equation_of_exchange), this will raise the value of trash can lids for all and stimulate the TCL sector of the economy. Connecting the TCL economy with the money economy by "selling" trash can lids would be counterproductive, as it would diminish the value of TCLs as a reserve currency in the international stupid bullshit market.

[bettyw.livejournal.com]

There are some hits on Amazon for just lids, and the seller is actually Ace - I wonder if you could get them shipped for free to an Ace store?

a Rubbermaid lid (http://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-32Gal-5B38-00-Egrn-Plastic-Gallon/dp/B000GD3K62/ref=pd_sbs_op_1)