The following notice is intended for those who use batteries or products with built-in batteries and no longer resell them in the form in which they were supplied (end users):

1. Taking back used batteries free of charge

Batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. You are legally obliged to return used batteries so that proper disposal can be ensured. You can take used batteries to a municipal collection point or to your local retailer. As a distributor of batteries, we are also obliged to take back used batteries, although our take-back obligation is limited to used batteries of the type that we carry or have carried as new batteries in our range. You can therefore either return used batteries of the aforementioned type to us with sufficient postage or hand them in free of charge directly to our dispatch warehouse at the address given in the legal notice.

2. Meaning of the battery symbols

Batteries are marked with the symbol of a crossed-out dustbin. This symbol indicates that batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. Batteries that contain more than 0.0005% mercury by mass, more than 0.002% cadmium by mass or more than 0.004% lead by mass are marked with the chemical name of the pollutant used under the dustbin symbol - "Cd" stands for cadmium, "Pb" for lead and "Hg" for mercury.

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

Owners of old appliances must dispose of 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. 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 by the old appliance before handing them in at a collection point. The latter does not apply if the waste equipment is separated from other waste equipment in accordance with Section 14 (5) sentences 2 and 3 ElektroG as part of the opt-in by the public waste management authorities for the purpose of preparing it for reuse.

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

2. Information on the possibility of returning old appliances:

Owners of old appliances can hand them in at the facilities set up and available by public waste disposal authorities 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 point. The following link provides an online list of collection and take-back points:
https://www.ear-system.de/ear-verzeichnis/sammel-und-ruecknahmestellen