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🚮Litter In Bin Sign Emoji

🚮 is the litter in bin sign emoji, U+1F6AE, one of 13 in the Transport Signs set. It arrived with Emoji 1.0 (2015) and is commonly used for bin, litter and litterbin.

What 🚮 litter in bin sign means

Wayfinding pictograms lifted from airports, stations and public buildings, which is why they read as instructions rather than as pictures. ♿️ is the International Symbol of Access and now stands for accessibility in general online, not just ramps. The passport, customs, baggage and left luggage signs turn up in travel threads, and the toilet symbols mark facilities on venue maps.

Unicode tags this one bin, litter and litterbin and files it under Symbols → Transport Signs.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F6AE`
HTML hex	`🚮`
HTML decimal	`🚮`
CSS	`\1F6AE`
JavaScript	`\u{1F6AE}`
Python	`\U0001F6AE`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDEAE`
Rust	`\u{1f6ae}`
Swift	`\u{1F6AE}`
PHP	`\u{1F6AE}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%9A%AE`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 9A AE`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DEAE`
Base64	`8J+arg==`
Decimal	`128686`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

bin
litter
litterbin
sign

Appears in these collections

How to type 🚮

Windows — press Win + . and search “litter in bin sign”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bin”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f6ae and Enter.
HTML — paste 🚮.

How 🚮 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🚮Apple
🚮Segoe
🚮Noto
🚮System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🚮 litter in bin sign emoji mean?+

🚮 is the litter in bin sign emoji, tagged bin, litter and litterbin. Wayfinding pictograms lifted from airports, stations and public buildings, which is why they read as instructions rather than as pictures. ♿️ is the International Symbol of Access and now stands for accessibility in general online, not just ramps. The passport, customs, baggage and left luggage signs turn up in travel threads, and the toilet symbols mark facilities on venue maps.

What is the Unicode code for 🚮?+

litter in bin sign is U+1F6AE. In HTML that is 🚮, in CSS \1F6AE, and in JavaScript \u{1F6AE}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🚮 emoji added?+

litter in bin sign got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🚮 litter in bin sign.