recycle bin

English

Etymology

First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.

Noun

recycle bin (plural recycle bins)

1. A container in which items to be recycled may be placed.
2. (computing) In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.

Synonyms

• recycling bin (sense 1)
• trash (sense 2, on other operating systems and emails)

Translations

container

• Armenian: աղբաման (hy) (aġbaman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資源回收筒／资源回收筒 (zīyuán huíshōu tǒng)

• Finnish: kierrätysastia
• French: corbeille (fr) f
• German: Papierkorb (de) m
• Hungarian: lomtár (hu), hulladékgyűjtő (hu), (szelektív) kuka/​szemét/​szemetes/​szemétláda/​szemetesláda
• Korean: 휴지통 (ko) (hyujitong)
• Macedonian: ка́нта за рецикли́рање f (kánta za reciklíranje)
• Norwegian: papirkurv
• Romanian: coș de reciclare n
• Russian: му́сорная корзи́на f (músornaja korzína), корзи́на (ru) f (korzína) (для му́сор)
• Swedish: papperskorg (sv) c, soptunna (sv) c, återvinningscontainer c
• Turkish: geri dönüşüm kutusu

(computing) in Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files

• Arabic: سَلَّة الْمَحْذُوفَات f (salla(t) al-maḥḏūfāt)
• Armenian: աղբաման (hy) (aġbaman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資源回收筒／资源回收筒 (zīyuán huíshōu tǒng), 回收站 (huíshōuzhàn)

• Finnish: roskakori (fi)
• Galician: papeleira de reciclaxe f
• German: Papierkorb (de) m
• Hungarian: lomtár (hu)
• Japanese: ごみ箱 (ja) (ごみばこ, gomibako)
• Polish: kosz (pl) m
• Portuguese: reciclagem (pt) f
• Romanian: coș de gunoi n
• Russian: му́сорная корзи́на f (músornaja korzína)
• Spanish: papelera de reciclaje f
• Swedish: papperskorg (sv) c
• Turkish: geri dönüşüm kutusu
• Ukrainian: кошик (uk) m (košyk)
• Vietnamese: thùng rác