 Unlike his predecessor John Trevelyan (qv) the new UK censor  Stephen Murphy (IV) (qv) had little time for Warhols movies and,  again unlike _Flesh (1968)_ (qv), Trash would receive a checkered  history in the UK. The film was rejected for a UK cinema certificate  in 1971 and only passed the following year after 8 minutes of  distributor edits (mainly to dialogue) and 2 minutes 48 secs of BBFC  cuts which removed a simulated fellatio scene, footage of syringes  and an infamous masturbation scene involving a beer bottle. The  initial 1991 UK video release by Virgin Video was the heavily cut  cinema version, as well as losing a further 1 minute 12 secs of  instructive drug use, bringing the cuts total to 12 minutes. The  1996 First Independent Films video release managed to include the  masturbation and fellatio scenes, as well as the 8 minutes of  distributor edits, from the cinema version but was still missing 2  minutes 20 secs of heroin