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This Can Is My Can, This Can Is Your Can When Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell announced last November, as part of a series of budget cuts, that the city would remove its 1,300 trash cans from the city's sidewalks and parks and lay off the workers who maintain them, citizens raised a stink. So now Mayor Campbell has a new idea: Adopt-A-Can. The city wants to sign annual agreements with companies, non-profits and even individuals who'll agree to look after specific trash cans, removing trash liners when they get full, replacing the liners and wiping off the lids. No-nos include painting the cans or slapping your company's logo on their sides. The mayor is optimistic that many of the cans will find foster parents. "We have a sense from the initial calls (in November) that there may be cans that several people want to adopt," she said. What do you do with the garbage you collect? Put it out with your regular trash. If you find something hazardous in the cans, call the city. Ditto if the cans are damaged. Already, one company has stepped forward to say it'll adopt 50 trash cans. Not surprisingly, it's a trash-hauling company. "We thought it was important that we stepped up and did our part," says the company's owner.