Wastebasket emoji meaning

The wastebasket emoji depicts a small trash can, typically silver or gray. It's used to symbolize getting rid of unwanted items, decluttering, or dismissing ideas. It's perfect for situations when you're talking about cleaning up or metaphorically throwing away something. It's a handy emoji for chats about recycling, tidying up, or moving past negative thoughts.

The wastebasket emoji is also known as Trash Emoji.

The wastebasket emoji was approved in Unicode 7.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/11052