The following information is intended for private households that use electrical and/or electronic equipment. Please observe
this important information in the interests of environmentally sound disposal of old equipment and your own safety.
1.
Information on the disposal of electrical and electronic (waste) equipment and the meaning of the symbol in accordance with Annex 3 of the ElektroG
Owners of old appliances must dispose of them separately from unsorted municipal waste. Electrical and electronic appliances must therefore not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste and, in particular, must not be disposed of with household waste.
Instead, these old appliances must be collected separately and disposed of via local collection and return systems.
Owners of old appliances must also dispose of old batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed in the old appliance, as well as lamps that can be removed from the old appliance without breaking it.
Owners of old appliances must also separate old batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed in the old appliance, as well as lamps that can be removed from the old appliance without destruction, before handing them in at a collection point.
Owners can identify old appliances that must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of their service life by the symbol in Appendix 3 to the ElektroG.
The symbol in Appendix 3 to the ElektroG enables owners to identify old appliances that must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of their service life.
The symbol for the separate collection of electrical and electronic equipment depicts a crossed-out wheeled bin and is designed as follows:
2. Information on the options for returning old appliances
2. Information on the options for returning old appliances
Owners of old appliances can hand them in at the collection points set up and made available by public waste disposal authorities for the return or collection of old appliances, so that they can be properly disposed of.
Owners of old appliances can return them within the framework of the options for returning or collecting old appliances set up and made available by public waste disposal authorities, so that proper disposal of the old appliances is ensured.
If necessary, it is also possible to return electrical and electronic equipment there for the purpose of reusing the equipment.
Further information on this can be obtained from the respective collection or return point. Further information on this can be obtained from the respective collection or return point.
The following link provides access to an online directory of collection and return points:
https://www.stiftung-ear.de/
3. Note on data protection
3. Note on data protection
Some old devices that are to be disposed of contain sensitive personal data (e.g., on a PC or smartphone) that must not fall into the hands of third parties.
We expressly point out that end users of old devices are responsible for ensuring that personal data is deleted from the old devices to be disposed of.
We expressly point out that end users of old devices are responsible for deleting personal data on the old devices to be disposed of.
4. Note on our WEEE registration number
4. Note on our WEEE registration number
We are registered with the Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Register (WEEE Register Foundation), Nordostpark 72 in 90411 Nuremberg, Germany, as a manufacturer of electrical and/or electronic equipment under the following registration number: WEEE-REG-NR.
We are registered with the Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Register (WEEE Register Foundation), Nordostpark 72 in 90411 Nuremberg, as a manufacturer of electrical and/or electronic equipment under the following registration number: WEEE Reg. No. DE 16761218.
5. Information on
