The trash can emoji is 🗑️, U+1F5D1, from Emoji 0.7. Unicode names it Wastebasket and notes trashcan as its other name; CLDR files it under can, garbage, trash, waste and wastebasket.
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Trash can, garbage can, dustbin
One emoji covers every name. By Wikipedia the container is a trash can, wastebasket or garbage can, mostly in the Americas, and a dustbin or rubbish bin, usually in Commonwealth English. So the garbage emoji, the trashcan emoji, the dustbin emoji and the rubbish bin emoji are this same tile, and search here takes any of the names.
The bin on a sign
CLDR’s word bin leads elsewhere: to Litter in bin sign, 🚮, whose Unicode character name is Put litter in its place symbol. For a garbage bin emoji or a trash bin emoji, take either tile. No littering is its opposite. The word delete finds neither: CLDR files it under Eraser alone.
Questions and answers
What does the wastebasket emoji mean?
Something thrown away. Wiktionary defines a wastebasket as a usually small indoor receptacle for items to be discarded. On a computer, by Wikipedia, the trash holds files set aside for deletion.
What is the trash can Unicode code?
U+1F5D1, followed by U+FE0F, the selector that asks for the emoji style. Unicode’s emoji list calls a bare U+1F5D1 unqualified. With U+FE0E instead it asks for the text style, which some apps draw as the emoji anyway.
Is there a recycling bin emoji?
No emoji has that name. Unicode has Recycling symbol, ♻️, and the combo Recycling bin puts it before the wastebasket. Plain text has more: symbols for plastics of types 1 to 7 and for recycled paper.
Is there a text emoticon for put it in the bin?
This page has its own, typed with plain keys: o -> \__/ is a ball on its way to a bin, and ( ._.)/ ~o \__/ throws it. Two drawings stand a bigger can upright.
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Trash can emoji 12
🍌BananaU+1F34C. Filed under banana. Emoji 0.6.
🧹BroomU+1F9F9. Filed under cleaning and sweeping. Emoji 11.0.
🪣BucketU+1FAA3. Filed under bucket and pail. Emoji 13.0.
🥫Canned foodU+1F96B. The only other emoji CLDR files under can. Emoji 5.0.
🗄️File cabinetU+1F5C4 U+FE0F. The emoji before Wastebasket in Unicode’s list. Emoji 0.7.
🚮Litter in bin signU+1F6AE. The only emoji CLDR files under bin. Unicode’s character name is Put litter in its place symbol. Emoji 1.0.
🚯No litteringU+1F6AF. Filed under litter. Unicode’s character name is Do not litter symbol. Emoji 1.0.
📦PackageU+1F4E6. Filed under box. Emoji 0.6.
📄Page facing upU+1F4C4. Filed under paper. Emoji 0.6.
♻️Recycling symbolU+267B U+FE0F. The only emoji CLDR files under recycling. Emoji 0.6.
🗞️Rolled-up newspaperU+1F5DE U+FE0F. Filed under paper. Emoji 0.7.
🗑️WastebasketU+1F5D1 U+FE0F. Unicode’s name for the trash can, with trashcan as its note. The only emoji CLDR files under trash, garbage and waste. Emoji 0.7.
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Recycling symbols 12
♽Partly recycled paperU+267D. Unicode names it Partially-recycled paper symbol.
♼Recycled paperU+267C. Unicode names it Recycled paper symbol, for 100% recycled paper content.
♲Recycling symbol, outlineU+2672. Unicode names it Universal recycling symbol.
♻︎Recycling symbol, text styleU+267B. Unicode’s character name is Black universal recycling symbol.
♺Recycling, generic materialsU+267A. Unicode names it Recycling symbol for generic materials.
♳Recycling, type 1 plasticsU+2673. Unicode names it Recycling symbol for type-1 plastics.
♴Recycling, type 2 plasticsU+2674. Unicode names it Recycling symbol for type-2 plastics.
♵Recycling, type 3 plasticsU+2675. Unicode names it Recycling symbol for type-3 plastics.
♶Recycling, type 4 plasticsU+2676. Unicode names it Recycling symbol for type-4 plastics.
♷Recycling, type 5 plasticsU+2677. Unicode names it Recycling symbol for type-5 plastics.
♸Recycling, type 6 plasticsU+2678. Unicode names it Recycling symbol for type-6 plastics.
♹Recycling, type 7 plasticsU+2679. Unicode names it Recycling symbol for type-7 plastics.
Typed bins 4
\__/The smallest bin. Plain ASCII
\__/ \__/ \__/Three bins in a row, for sorting. Plain ASCII
o -> \__/Put it in the bin: a ball, an arrow, a bin. Plain ASCII
( ._.)/ ~o \__/Thrown in the bin: a face, an arm, a paper ball and a bin. Plain ASCII
Bin drawings 2
Trash can, drawnSeven lines of ASCII
Wastebasket, drawnFive lines of ASCII
Trash lines 5
Bins go out tonight 🗑️The same reminder, in Commonwealth English
Moved to trash 🗑️For a file or a plan
Please take out the trash 🗑️A polite one
This idea goes in the bin 🗑️For a draft that did not work
Trash day tomorrow 🗑️A reminder for the house
Trash combos 10
📦♻️Boxes for recyclingPackage, then recycling symbol.
🧹🗑️✨Clean sweepBroom, then wastebasket, then sparkles.
📧➡️🗑️Inbox to trashE-mail, then right arrow, then wastebasket.
🚮✅Litter in its placeLitter in bin sign, then check mark button.
🚯🌳Not on the groundNo littering, then deciduous tree.
📄➡️🗑️Paper tossPage facing up, then right arrow, then wastebasket.
🍌🗑️Peel in the binBanana, then wastebasket.
♻️🗑️Recycling binRecycling symbol, then wastebasket.
🥫♻️Sort the cansCanned food, then recycling symbol.
🗑️🚶Take out the trashWastebasket, then person walking.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Wastebasket is U+1F5D1 U+FE0F, Emoji 0.7, in the group Objects, subgroup office: File cabinet is printed before it and it is the last of that subgroup. CLDR gives it five search words (can, garbage, trash, waste, wastebasket); it is the only emoji filed under trash, garbage and waste, and one of two under can, with Canned food. CLDR files bin under Litter in bin sign alone (U+1F6AE, Emoji 1.0), delete under Eraser alone and recycling under Recycling symbol alone; no emoji name and no search word holds rubbish or dustbin. Character names (Wastebasket; Put litter in its place symbol; Do not litter symbol; the twelve recycling symbols from U+2672 to U+267D) are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); Unicode’s note trashcan on U+1F5D1 and its note on the recycled paper symbol are from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). A bare U+1F5D1 is listed as unqualified in the emoji list, and the character has both an emoji and a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The names of the container by region (trash can, garbage can or wastebasket in the Americas; rubbish bin or dustbin in Commonwealth English) are from Wikipedia, Waste container (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_container, CC BY-SA 4.0); the trash on a computer, a place for files set aside for deletion, from Wikipedia, Trash (computing) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_(computing)); the definition of a wastebasket from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wastebasket, CC BY-SA 4.0). The four typed bins, the two drawings, the five lines and the ten combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.