Dude/dudette. 1 year olds are just poop robots. Wait a few more months.

We use "tidy up" or "clean up" and "put it in the bin".

At that age and with those two phrases they're just hearing the "away" part and thinking "I know what away means" :)

At one year old, your child should constantly be supervised with no access to the bin (toddlers tend to put whatever they find in their mouth). You can give your child positive and negative feedback for their actions with manually correcting when needed.

We went through this. We changed to “put it away/back” and “put it in the trash can”

Are they closer to one or two?

i have a 2 year old and i can trust them with that difference - maybe it's just too young and they're still learning the distinction?

Alternatively, you could try making a game out of putting the milk cup around the room and putting it on the side. I know my child was super curious about the bin too.

I avoid confusing phrases once I've learned that the phrases confuse the children. So for this child, I would have "put" and I would have "trash". And as I pointed to something or handed them something I would either say "put" or "trash". Clearly, the word "away" is presenting a challenge to them that is making this more difficult than it needs to be at this time in their life. Later on we can work on multi word phrases, maybe closer to 1 1/2 or two. Right now, one word.

have you considered putting away the child 🤔