A crossed-out wheeled bin symbol required on electrical and electronic products under EU law, instructing separate collection rather than general disposal.
Also known as: Crossed-out wheeled bin
Standardised under the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive — instructs that the item must not be thrown away as unsorted municipal waste and must instead be collected separately for treatment.
Signals the item must be collected separately from general municipal waste, for treatment and recycling of electronic equipment under EU Directive 2002/96/EC (recast as 2012/19/EU) — a disposal instruction, not a recyclability claim by itself.
Contexts: Packaging, Electrical equipment
Related forms that are not treated as separate canonical symbols — see our variant rules.
Solid bar variant
A solid black bar beneath the bin denotes goods placed on the market after the Directive's obligations took effect; goods from the initial transition period may lack the bar.
A wheeled waste bin with a large cross or X drawn through it.
Both belong to the Packaging, recycling and disposal symbols system.
Both belong to the Packaging, recycling and disposal symbols system.