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♻️Recycling Symbol Emoji

Unicode added ♻️ recycling symbol in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Symbols → Other Symbols. Its codepoint is U+267B U+FE0F, and it is tagged recycle, recycling and symbol.

What ♻️ recycling symbol means

An assortment that ends up doing heavy lifting in lists and checklists. ✅️ and ❌️ mark done and not done, and the Japanese origin shows: ⭕️ and ❌️ follow the maru and batsu convention, where a circle means correct and a cross means wrong, a pairing English marking never uses. 🔰 is Japan's badge for new drivers, and ©️, ®️ and ™️ fuel jokes about ownership.

Unicode tags this one recycle, recycling and symbol and files it under Symbols → Other Symbols.

Copy variants

recycling symbol carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

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

How ♻️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

  1. ♻U+267Brecycling symbol
  2. ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

UnicodeU+267B U+FE0F
HTML hex♻️
HTML decimal♻️
CSS\267B\FE0F
JavaScript\u{267B}\u{FE0F}
Python\U0000267B\U0000FE0F
Java / C#\u267B\uFE0F
Rust\u{267b}\u{fe0f}
Swift\u{267B}\u{FE0F}
PHP\u{267B}\u{FE0F}
URL encoded%E2%99%BB%EF%B8%8F
UTF-8 bytesE2 99 BB EF B8 8F
UTF-16 bytes267B FE0F
Base644pm777iP
Decimal9851 65039
IntroducedUnicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type ♻️

  • Windows — press Win + . and search “recycling symbol”.
  • macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
  • iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “recycle”.
  • Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 267b 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 ♻️ recycling symbol emoji mean?+

♻️ is the recycling symbol emoji, tagged recycle, recycling and symbol. An assortment that ends up doing heavy lifting in lists and checklists. ✅️ and ❌️ mark done and not done, and the Japanese origin shows: ⭕️ and ❌️ follow the maru and batsu convention, where a circle means correct and a cross means wrong, a pairing English marking never uses. 🔰 is Japan's badge for new drivers, and ©️, ®️ and ™️ fuel jokes about ownership.

What is the Unicode code for ♻️?+

recycling symbol is U+267B U+FE0F. In HTML that is ♻️, in CSS \267B\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{267B}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ♻️ emoji added?+

recycling symbol got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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.

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Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

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