Comment 11 for bug 195915

It is possible that the trash icon is somehow not displaying - someone reported in in forums:
 http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=752092&page=1

and I am also experiencing this - no trash applet is visible, adding it to the panel doesn't help, restarting GNOME (ctrl-alt-bksp, alt-print screen-k) also doesn't help, but right clicking a tiny area where the applet should possibly reside displays the trash applet menu: (ver 2.22.1)