You could threaten the garbage people and make them give you a new one a.s.a.p. Tell them that if they don't give you a new trashcan fast, you are going to dump all of your grabage onto their property I guess? Or area, whatever. Worked for my mom, she got a new trashcan in like a day. And I thought it was funny because according to wolf, I don't have a "good sense of humor"