Pin the Recycle Bin to your Start Menu: Right click the desktop icon and click Pin to Start.
So, before showing you how to remove the icon from your desktop, here are two options for putting the Recycle Bin in other locations (one provides more functionality but you can do both): Option 1
However, getting to the desktop icon settings can be a bit confusing and if you wind up disabling the icon before making it available elsewhere, you'll likely have a difficult time finding the Recycle Bin again without going back to re-enable it on the desktop. Preferring to keep our desktop clean, we remove the Recycle Bin icon from Windows 10 as one of the first tweaks to a fresh installation of the operating system. Have you ever been to a presentation, or worse, a high-profile company keynote, it gets started on an empty Windows desktop showing nothing but the Recycle Bin icon? Hideous.
