Information on electrical and electronic (waste) equipment.
The following information is intended for private households that use electrical and/or electronic equipment. Please follow these important instructions in the interest of environmentally sound disposal of old equipment and your own safety.
1. notes on the disposal of electrical and electronic (waste) equipment and on the meaning of the symbol according to Annex 3 to the ElektroG.
Owners of old appliances must dispose of them separately from unsorted municipal waste. Electrical and electronic (old) equipment may therefore not be disposed of with unsorted municipal waste and, in particular, does not belong in household waste. Instead, these old appliances must be collected separately and disposed of, for example, via municipal collection and take-back systems.
Owners of old appliances must also separate old batteries and accumulators that are not contained in the old appliance from the latter before handing it in at a collection point.
The latter does not apply insofar as the WEEE is separated from other WEEE within the framework of opting by the public waste management authorities for the purpose of preparing it for reuse in accordance with Section 14 (5) sentences 2 and 3 ElektroG.
By means of the symbol according to Annex 3 to the ElektroG, owners can recognize 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 garbage can and is designed as follows:
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2. Information on the possibilities for returning old equipment.
Owners of old appliances can hand them in at the facilities set up and available by public waste management authorities for the return or collection of old appliances, so that proper disposal of the old appliances is ensured. If necessary, it is also possible to hand in electrical and electronic equipment there for the purpose of reusing the equipment. You can obtain more detailed information from the respective collection or take-back point.
The following link provides an online directory of collection and take-back points:
https://www.ear-system.de/ear-verzeichnis/sammel-und-ruecknahmestellen
3. Note on data protection
Some of the end-of-life 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 must take responsibility for deleting personal data from the old devices to be disposed of.
4. Note on our WEEE registration number
We are registered with the Foundation Elektro-Altgeräte Register, Benno-Strauß-Str. 1, 90763 Fürth, Germany, as a manufacturer of electrical and/or electronic equipment under the following registration number (WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE): 19807474.