Information on electrical and electronic appliances

The following information is aimed at private households that use electrical and/or electronic appliances. Please follow these important instructions in the interests of environmentally friendly disposal of old appliances and your own safety.

1. information on the disposal of (old) electrical and electronic 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. Waste electrical and electronic equipment may therefore not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste and in particular does not belong in household waste. Instead, these old appliances must be collected separately and disposed of via local collection and return systems, for example.

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 destroying them, before handing them in at a collection point.

The latter does not apply if the WEEE § 14 Absatz 4 Satz 4 oder Absatz 5 Satz 2 und 3 ElektroG is separated from other WEEE as part of the opting process by the public waste management authorities for the purpose of preparing it for reuse.

The symbol in Annex 3 of the ElektroG enables owners to recognise old appliances that are to 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 represents a crossed-out wheeled bin and is designed as follows:

2. information on the options for returning old appliances

Owners of old appliances can hand them in at the facilities set up and available by public waste disposal organisations for the return or collection of old appliances to ensure that they are disposed of properly. It may also be possible to hand in electrical and electronic equipment there for the purpose of reuse. You can obtain more detailed information on this from the respective collection or take-back centre.

Under the following link consists the possibility, sich ein Onlineverzeichnis der Sammel- und Rücknahmestellen anzeigen to acquire: https://www.ear-system.de/ear-verzeichnis/sammel-und-ruecknahmestellen

3. note on data protection

Some of the old devices 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 deleting personal data on the old devices to be disposed of.

4. note on our WEEE registration number

We are registered with the Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Register, Nordostpark 72 in 90411 Nuremberg, Germany, as a manufacturer of electrical and/or electronic equipment under the following registration number (WEEE Reg. No. DE):

„DE 95902713“