Abstract: A combined outdoor trash receptacle and advertising medium has a fully or partly light-transmitting outer housing which is mounted on an upright column and surrounds a hollow skeleton frame for one or more light-transmitting panels for advertising material. The frame is rotated in the housing by an electric motor which is mounted in the column, and the frame surrounds one or more lamps which are disposed around a removable trash can. The housing has a pivotable cover which enables the pedestrians to drop refuse into the can. The open top of the can is provided with a collar which rests on a seat forming part of the top portion of the housing or the top section of the frame.