Chew on this, 
Rubbermaid
    Coons and squirrels just love our garbage. Plastic garbage cans won't keep them away from it. Racoons can unlatch them and lift the lid, but squirrels will chew at the top night after night till they've got a hole big enough to climb through.
   Both kinds of critters leave a disgusting mess, but squirrels are worse because once that hole's chewed, the garbage can is open house every night.
    Metal cans thwart the squirrels and challenge even the coons, but they're no match for the garbage collectors, who dent and crush them in a matter of weeks till the lids won't fit.
    We finally settled on storing our garbage in a metal can and then emptying that into a plastic one with an as-yet-unchewed cover to put out at the curb on garbage night. Streetlights and the passing traffic seem to keep critters at bay for the few hours till dawn.
    But I want to know why you can't just replace a plastic can's lid, instead of also having to buy a new can each time too, and ending up with a bunch of unwanted lidless cans that garbage collectors won't take away unless you cut them in pieces. How smart is that?