Information on electrical and electronic equipment

Please observe these important instructions in the interests of environmentally friendly disposal of old devices and your own safety.

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

1. Information on the disposal of electrical and electronic equipment and the meaning of the symbol in Annex 3 to the ElektroG:

Owners of old devices must collect them separately from unsorted municipal waste. Waste electrical and electronic equipment must therefore not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste and, in particular, does not belong in household waste. Rather, these old devices should be collected separately and disposed of via the local collection and return systems.

Owners of old devices must also separate old batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed by the old device from it before handing them in at a collection point.

The latter does not apply if the old devices are separated from other old devices in accordance with § 14 paragraph 5 sentences 2 and 3 ElektroG as part of the opting by the public waste disposal authorities for the purpose of preparing them for reuse in order to prepare them for reuse.

Owners can use the symbol in Annex 3 to the ElektroG to identify old devices that are to be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste. The symbol for the separate collection of electrical and electronic equipment represents a crossed-out wheeled bin and is designed as follows:

2. Notes on the options for returning old devices:

Owners of old devices can return or collect old devices within the scope of the options set up and available by public waste disposal authorities, so that proper disposal of the old devices is ensured. It may also be possible to hand in electrical and electronic equipment there for the purpose of reusing the equipment. You can obtain more detailed information on this from the respective collection or collection point.

You can use the following link to display an online directory of the collection and return points:
https://www.ear-system.de/ear-verzeichnis/sammel-und-ruecknahmestellen

3. Privacy Notice

Some of the old devices to be disposed of contain sensitive personal data (e.g. on a PC or a smartphone), which must not get 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. Notice of our WEEE registration number

We are at the Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Register, Benno-Strauß-Str. 1, 90763 Fürth as a manufacturer of electrical and/or electronic devices under the following registration number (WEEE Reg. No. DE):

DE 41361561