A trash container for the storage and ready removal of filled disposable garbage bags and receptacles or the like from a side of the container. The trash container is of an essentially frusto-conical configuration narrowing towards an upper end and incorporating an opening or top aperture for the inserton of filled garbage bags or similar refuse, and in which at least one of the upwardly converging container sidewalls includes a wall portion which is pivotably openable so as to enable the discharge of the trash container contents through a side thereof in its lower region.