Crossed-out bin with a bar under it
The bar says the product was placed on the market after 13 August 2005, the date the EU rules use to decide who pays for collecting and treating it. The bin itself still means: collect separately, never in unsorted waste.
A mark tells you what the maker declares, never that the product is safe.
- What it looks like
- The crossed-out wheeled bin with a solid black bar under it.
- Who may apply it
- The producer. Instead of the bar, it may print the date the product was placed on the market. The WEEE Directive asks for a date mark of this kind and points to EN 50419 for how to do it.
- Where it goes
- On the product, under the bin symbol.
What it does not promise
The bar is not a manufacturing date, a quality grade or a recycling class. A bin without a bar does not mean the product is older than 2005: the producer may have printed a date instead.
Other marks with the same shapes
Sources
Each page below was fetched and read on the date shown. Where a symbol’s IEC 60417 or ISO 7000 number is given, a public page listing that number is among them.
- Your Europe (European Union): WEEE — what does the label mean, EU requirements (page last checked by the EU 12/07/2026) — “If your product was placed on the market after 13 August 2005, you can either: add a bar underneath the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol, or specify the date that the product was placed on the market”. Checked 2026-09-24.
- EUR-Lex (Official Journal of the EU): Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) — Articles 14 and 15, Annex IX — Article 15(2): a mark on the EEE specifies that it was placed on the market after 13 August 2005; “Preferably, the European Standard EN 50419 shall be applied for this purpose.” Article 13: financing for WEEE from users other than private households, from products placed on the market after 13 August 2005, is provided for by producers. Checked 2026-09-24.
- GOV.UK (Environment Agency): Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producer responsibility (last updated 12 August 2025) — A producer compliance scheme takes on financial obligations for non-household WEEE from “EEE a producer placed on the market on or after 13 August 2005”. Checked 2026-09-24.
Written in our own words; quotations are the sources’ wording.