A stick-figure pictogram of a person putting litter into a bin, a UK-trademarked anti-littering mark that also appears informally on packaging worldwide.
Also known as: Keep Britain Tidy man
A trademark of the UK charity Keep Britain Tidy, encouraging proper disposal of litter — unrelated to recyclability or material content, and with a genuinely disputed, unverified origin story despite its familiar appearance.
Encourages proper disposal of litter in a bin — a civic/behavioural prompt with no connection to recyclability or material content, trademarked in the UK by the charity Keep Britain Tidy.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
Keep Britain Tidy's own account attributes the design to a 1960s US collaboration between Keep America Beautiful and the American Brewers Association, later trademarked in the UK in the 1970s — but a documented investigation found none of those organisations could produce records confirming this, leaving the true creator and creation date unverified.
Presented as a genuinely unresolved historical question, not a settled origin story.
1960s–1970s (disputed)
A simple stick-figure pictogram of a person depositing an item into a waste bin.
Both are bin pictograms: one asks a reader to dispose of packaging tidily, the other deletes a file.
Both belong to the Packaging, recycling and disposal symbols system.