The Trash Can Band

"The Trash Can Band" is a Schoolhouse Rock! song from Schoolhouse Rock! Earth. The song focuses on recycling.

Lyrics[]

Box: I'm Box.
Bottle: I'm Bottle.
Can: I'm Can.
All: And we're the members of the Trash Can Band.
We're the all-American, tin-can banging
Bottle-tooting band.
We got a little trash-can song.
We hope it won't smell too strong.
But we're talking trash, and we may rehash
So we hope you're gonna sing along.
We're talking trash, trash.
Don't throw it away too soon
We chuck so much, our garbage trucks
Could almost touch the moon.
Box: No kidding.
All: Trash, trash
It's an ever-growing stash
So play it smart; let's do our part
By making less trash.
Bottle: Reduce the trash that you produce.
Can: One big bag, not six small ones.
Bottle: Reuse the things you can reuse.
Can: Think twice before you toss them.
Box: Recycle, donate, buy things used.
It's a make-less-garbage plan.
Can: Reduce
Box: Reuse
Bottle: Recycle
All: With Box and Bottle and Can.
Box: I'm Box.
Bottle: I'm Bottle.
Can: I'm Can.
All: We're members of the Trash Can Band
Box: Yeah, we're the all-American
Bottle: Buy-less packaging
All: Reuse, recycling band
Bottle: Let's use it a few more times
Can: Or make it into something grand
Box: Join the all-American
Can: Make-less garbage
All: Good old Trash Can Band.
Box: Play it, Bottle.
Bottle: (tooting)
Dolly Carton: Hey there, boys.
Box: Why, it's Dolly Carton.
Bottle: Want to sit in, Dolly?
Dolly Carton: Sure, boys. I love talking trash.
Now, I buy my chips in a great big bag
Not a lot of little bags, you see.
I'm reducing on the paper using one less container.
No extra trash for me.
I reuse plastic and refill the bottles
Try to give my old things away.
If something should break I say, "What'll it make?"
Hey, look what I made today.
But enough about me. Now, boys, let's hear you play.
(playing Bluegrass music)
Bottle: Reduce the trash that you produce.
Can: One big bag, not six small ones.
Bottle: Reuse the things you can reuse.
Can: Think twice before you toss them.
Box: Recycle, donate, buy things used.
It's a make-less-garbage plan.
Bottle: Reduce
Can: Reuse
Box: Recycle
All: With Box and Bottle and Can.
Box: I'm Box.
Bottle: I'm Bottle.
Can: I'm Can.
All: We're members of the Trash Can Band.
We're the all-American, make-less-garbage
Good old Trash Can Band.
Dolly: Now, thank you for the hand.
All: Hope you're gonna join the band.
Join the all-American, make-less-garbage
Good old Trash Can Band.
Box: Play it again, Bottle.
Bottle: (tooting)
Box: I'm Box.
Bottle: I'm Bottle.
Can: I'm Can.

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Media
Schoolhouse Rock! • Schoolhouse Rock Live! • Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong

Songs

Schoolhouse Rocky
Multiplication: My Hero, Zero • Elementary, My Dear • Three is a Magic Number • The Four-Legged Zoo • Ready or Not, Here I Come • I Got Six • Lucky Seven Sampson • Figure Eight • Naughty Number Nine • The Good Eleven • Little Twelvetoes
Grammar: Unpack Your Adjectives • Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here • Conjunction Junction • Interjections! • Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla • Verb: That's What's Happening • A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing • Busy Prepositions • The Tale of Mr. Morton
America: No More Kings • Fireworks • The Shot Heard 'Round the World • The Preamble • Elbow Room • The Great American Melting Pot • Mother Necessity • Sufferin' Till Suffrage • I'm Just a Bill • Three Ring Government • I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College • Presidential Minute
Science: The Body Machine • Do the Circulation • Electricity, Electricity • The Energy Blues • Interplanet Janet • Telegraph Line • Them Not-So-Dry Bones • A Victim of Gravity • The Weather Show
Money: Dollars and Sense • $7.50 Once a Week • Where the Money Goes • Tax Man Max • Walkin' on Wall Street • This for That • Tyrannosaurus Debt • The Check's in the Mail
Earth: Report from the North Pole • The Little Things We Do • The Trash Can Band • You Oughta Be Saving Water • The Rainforest • Save the Ocean • Fat Cat Blue: The Clean Rivers Song • A Tiny Urban Zoo • Solar Power to the People • Windy and the Windmills • Don't Be a Carbon Sasquatch • The Three R's

Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
Theme • Hardware • Software • Number Cruncher

Characters
Schoolhouse Rocky • Lucky Seven Sampson • Bill • Interplanet Janet