Abstract: An apparatus for holding a flexible, collapsible trash liner. A rigid upward vented trash receptacle receives a flexible, collapsible, trash liner and includes along the side walls of the upward vented trash receptacle a plurality of axially aligned and peripherily positioned hollow tubes which are interior to or part of (molded into) the vented trash receptacle's internal walls and open at both ends which terminate approximately 1" interior to the top and bottom of the upward vented trash receptacle. The hollow tubes allow ambient air to be drawn from the top of the tubes to the bottom of the tubes to reduce the vacuum created in the vacant space immediately below the flexible, collapsible trash liner as it is removed from the upward vented trash receptacle and thus facilitate removal of the flexible, collapsible trash liner.