Empty Recycle Bin

The empty-recycle-bin icon represents an empty recycling bin or trash can, commonly used to symbolize deletion or disposal of digital items. It originated from real-world recycling bins and has been adapted for digital use. The icon's universality has made it a widely recognized symbol across various platforms.

In real-world applications, the empty-recycle-bin icon appears in file management systems, such as Windows Explorer or macOS Finder, as well as in digital trash or recycle bin interfaces. It's often used to indicate that a file or item has been deleted.

From a UX perspective, the empty-recycle-bin icon communicates removal or deletion, helping users understand that an item is no longer available. Its presence can provide a clear visual cue for users to confirm or undo deletion.

Empty Recycle Bin is one of 1,735 icons in Fluent UI MDL2, made by Microsoft Corporation and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 2048 × 2048 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds EmptyRecycleBinIcon to components/icons/fluent-mdl2-empty-recycle-bin.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed EmptyRecycleBinIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Empty Recycle Bin icon, or any of 1,735 Fluent UI MDL2 icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 2048 × 2048 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Empty Recycle Bin", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. EmptyRecycleBinIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <EmptyRecycleBinIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. MIT allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: MIT only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Fluent UI MDL2, Microsoft Corporation and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

Its tags are file, management, delete, waste, trash and recycle. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Empty Recycle Bin in another set.

Fluent UI MDL2 draws many icons in several styles: Solid next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Empty Recycle Bin's siblings in it.