Recycling symbol
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- Shortcode
:recycle:- Shortcode
:recycling_symbol:- Unicode
U+267B- HTML
♻- CSS
\267B- JavaScript
"\u{267B}"- URL
%E2%99%BB%EF%B8%8F
What ♻️ means
Arrows chasing each other in a loop: the recycling symbol. It stands for recycling, reuse, and care for the environment.
People use ♻️ in posts about sorting waste, thrift finds and sustainable habits. It also has a joking sense: an old meme, outfit or excuse that has been recycled one time too many.
Facts
Recycling symbol ♻️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under other symbol. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :recycle: or :recycling_symbol:. People also look for it with words like “recycle”, “recycling”, or “symbol”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.