Information for battery and disposal
In connection with the sale of batteries or with the delivery of devices that contain batteries, are under obligation to bring the following to your attention:
As the end user, you are legally under obligation to return used batteries. You can return old batteries, which offer or have offered in our new battery assortment, free of charge to our dispatch warehouse (dispatch address). The symbols showed on the batteries have the following meaning:
The symbol of the crossed-out dustbin means that the battery may not be discarded with the household waste.
Pb = Battery contains more than 0.004 percent by mass of Lead
Cd = Battery contains more than 0.002 percent by mass of Cadmium
Hg = Battery contains more than 0.0005 percent by mass of Mercury.
Please pay attention to the above instructions.
Producer´s BattG registration number
As a producer in terms of the German BattG we are registered with the German registration authority Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte-Register (Benno-Strauß-Str. 1, 90763 Fürth), having been granted the following BattG registration number: Batt-Reg.-Nr. DE 60505908
Information on disposal of electric and electronic devices
In connection with the sale of electrical appliances, we are obliged to point out the following:
The Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) in Germany contains several requirements concerning the handling of electric and electronic devices as waste. In the following paragraphs, we list the most important requirements for you.
1. Separated recycling of "old devices"
Electric and electronic devices that have become waste are called old devices. Owners of such old devices have to bring these to recycling facilities, where these are handled and recorded separately from urban solid waste. Old devices must not end up in the household refuse. In fact they have to be collected in special collecting and recycling systems.
2. Batteries and accumulators
If possible, electric and electronic equipment has to be disposed separately from built-in batteries and / or accumulators.
3. Possibility for disposal of "old devices"
Owners of old devices from private households can dispose these at the public waste disposal authorities or bring them to producer or seller related disposal locations.
You can find these disposal locations online: https://www.ear-system.de/ear-verzeichnis/sammel-und-ruecknahmestellen.jsf
4. Privacy information
Old devices often contain private data, especially appliances from data processing and communication equipment, as smartphones or hard discs. In your own interest, please arrange to eliminate all personal and private data from your disposed equipment.
5. Meaning of the symbol "crossed out waste container"
The labelled symbol showing the „crossed out waste container“ on electric and electronic equipment indicates that he concerning equipment has to be disposed separately from urban solid waste.
6. Producer´s WEEE registration number
As a producer in terms of the German ElektroG we are registered with the German registration authority Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte-Register (Benno-Strauß-Str. 1, 90763 Fürth), having been granted the following WEEE registration number: WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 36681763