Abstract: A container for receiving ashes and cigarette and cigar butts, comprising: a flat-bottomed bag open at the top, made of substantially air-impermeable, plastically deformable, pliable sheet material having at least on its sides defining the interior of the bag a material surface substantially resistant to the embers of cigarette and cigar butts, the bag having a bottom and two confronting identical sidewalls which are joined to one another and to the bottom in a substantially air-tight manner and merge at the open upper end of the bag with a peripheral marginal section, the sidewalls being superimposable on one another at least in the area adjacent the marginal section and being provided at the transition to the peripheral marginal section with a folding line or crease such that the peripheral marginal section can be bent to one side along the crease with plastic deformation of the sheet material, by at least 90.degree.