TechSpot published Where is the Windows 10 Recycle Bin? Removing it from the desktop & putting it elsewhere A quote from the article:

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. 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.

 Where is the Windows 10 Recycle Bin? Removing it from the desktop & putting it elsewhere