Disposal of old appliances

Note on the disposal of old appliances
According to the law on the placing on the market, return and environmentally sound disposal of electrical and electronic equipment (ElektroG), we have to inform private households about the handling of electrical and electronic equipment:

The Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) contains a large number of requirements for the handling of electrical and electronic equipment. The most important ones are summarised here for you:

1. separate collection of old appliances

Electrical and electronic appliances that have become waste are referred to as old appliances. Owners of old appliances must dispose of them separately from unsorted municipal waste. In particular, old appliances do not belong in household waste, but in special collection and return systems.

2. batteries and rechargeable batteries

As a rule, owners of waste appliances must separate waste batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed by the waste appliance before handing them in at a collection point. This does not apply if the waste equipment is handed in to public waste management authorities and separated there from other waste equipment for the purpose of preparing it for reuse.

3. options for returning old appliances

Owners of old appliances from private households can hand them in at the collection points of the public waste disposal authorities or at the take-back centres set up by manufacturers or distributors in accordance with the ElektroG.

4. data protection notice

Old devices often contain sensitive personal data. This applies in particular to information and telecommunications technology devices such as computers and smartphones. In your own interest, please note that each end user is responsible for deleting the data on the old devices to be disposed of.

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