Minecraft Trash Can Tutorial (How to Build a Simple Item Disposal System)

 While playing Minecraft, you'll find and collect an increasing number of blocks and items. Others will only take up inventory or storage space. While some of these goods can be traded with villages for valuable items, others can be destroyed.

However, if you drop an item on the ground, it will not despawn and will stay there for a long time. In Minecraft, the only way to completely destroy a fallen object is to throw it into lava or onto a cactus.

Using this principle, users have built a variety of garbage cans in Minecraft over the years. These methods are fairly simple, as demonstrated below.

2 Methods for Making Garbage Cans in Minecraft

Minecraft hopper and lava setup for trash can item disposal

In Minecraft, you can build a trash can in two ways. The first step is to create a simple item disposal system that includes a hopper and lava for safely destroying unwanted items. The second method makes use of command blocks to instantly remove items from your inventory or the world. Both approaches help to keep your inventory organized and clutter-free while playing.

1. Lava garbage can with automatic dropper

That method of building a garbage can is slightly more difficult because it requires the use of a redstone device. You could, however, simply toss the unnecessary items into the trash can and forget about it.

To construct this, you'll need the following materials:

• 1 Dropper
• 1 Redstone comparator
• 2 Redstone repeaters
• 6 Redstone dust
• 1 Lava bucket
• 1 Hopper
• 1 Chest

Once you've gathered all of the necessary supplies, start by digging a 6x3x2 hole to house the redstone contraption. Next, excavate one block to deposit lava and place a dropper in front of it, with the dropper's face towards the lava.

How to build a trash can with lava trap in Minecraft survival mode

To build the redstone contraption, attach the dropper to a comparator and a repeater. Connect all of the blocks using the redstone dust that has been spread around them, and finish with another redstone repeater looking away from the first.

Place the hopper on top of the dropper block, followed by the chest. Finally, use blocks to cover the entire area, leaving only the chest visible. You can now place any item in the chest, and the redstone contraption will continue to activate the dropper, causing the objects to fall into the lava pit.

2. A simple manual lava garbage can

Minecraft Trash Can Tutorial (How to Build a Simple Item Disposal System)

If you don't want to use redstone to create a garbage can, you can use a cauldron and trapdoor. It only takes a cauldron, a trapdoor, and a lava bucket to make this.

To begin, create the cauldron and place it wherever convenient. Then pour the lava into the cauldron. Finally, create a trapdoor above the cauldron to cover its mouth and keep players from falling into it by accident. The garbage can is finally finished.

This approach is perhaps the simplest to build, but it requires you to manually throw items into it. Furthermore, discarding items by hand can be dangerous because you may unintentionally throw away something important. Because lava quickly destroys all items, you won't have time to save them. As a result, this method should be approached with caution.