Anaconda’s Ace Hardware sells Toter brand bear-resistant garbage cans in two sizes.

If you’re an Anaconda Disposal customer, buy a Toter 96 gallon bear-resistant can. This size works best with Anaconda Disposal’s trucks.

If you haul your own trash to the dump, you can buy a 64 gallon or 96 gallon Toter bear-resistant can.

We typically sent out rebates within two weeks of receiving your information.

No! These cans unlock automatically when a garbage truck tips them. Always keep your can locked.

Bear-resistant garbage cans are designed to keep bears from accessing garbage. They’re made of durable materials and have locking lids.

The Toter bear-resistant garbage cans at Anaconda’s Ace are IGBC-certified, meaning they’ve been tested by real grizzly bears to prove they’re tough enough to keep bears out.

Note that these garbage cans are bear “resistant,” not bear “proof.” If given enough time, a motivated bear can get into a locked can. The best practice is to store bear-resistant cans in a locked, hard-sided building like a garage until the morning of trash pickup.

Bear-resistant garbage cans are one of the best ways to keep your property and your neighborhood safe and clean.

Bears are always on the lookout for food, guided by their strong sense of smell and, unfortunately, will even eat things with little nutritional value, like garbage. Once a bear learns that garbage is an easy meal, it will continue to seek it out and is more likely to approach communities and other developed areas. This can lead to surprise run-ins between people and bears, or bears trying to defend food sources—dangerous situations for people, and deadly ones for bears.

Bear-resistant cans prevent bears from getting into garbage and keep them moving on in search of natural foods. They also save you and your garbage hauler from having to pick up trash strewn about by a bear.