🚮
What 🚮 means
A square sign with the figure of a human or a person raising the right hand and tossing a squarish object into a tapered rectangular outline; which essentially represents trash thrown into the trashcan.
The 🚮 Litter in Bin emoji is an indication of lacking common sense; throwing trash into the bin, and not anywhere else. It could be metaphorically understood as a way of saying "everything has its place" or just, don't litter.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone to throw the trash in the trashcan, but figuratively, use 🚮. Like, "You need to stop carrying trash around, man. Throw those wasteful relationships into the bin and move on! 🚮".
- 'Do Not Litter' is a popular sign almost everywhere - which basically means, do not filth out the place with thy filth. For example, "People who cannot contain their own garbage spread it 🚮" or "We already have enough to deal with, let your trash not be an addition 🚮".
- 🚮 could also be a sign for "picking up after oneself" or in simpler words, taking responsibility for your own actions - "No one's put on this planet to pick up after you. Grow up and do it yourself 🚮".
- If you're sharing a 'triggering post' that has a high possibility of inviting hateful comments, you may welcome 🚮 into the caption or the 'warning'. For instance, "Do not trash talk in here 🚮".
Other Names
- 🚮 Do Not Litter
- 🚮 Throw Trash in the Trashcan
- 🚮 Person With Trash
- 🚮 Put Litter in Trash
- 🚮 Put Litter in its Place Symbol
- 🚮 Put Trash in its Place
- 🚮 No Littering
- 🚮 Pick Up After Yourself
- 🚮 Be Responsible
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › transport-sign
- Codepoints
U+1F6AE- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:put_litter_in_its_place:- Keywords
- bin, litter, litterbin, sign
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🚮 Litter in Bin Sign or 8️⃣ Keycap: 8?