INFORMATION ON ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC 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 ELECTRICAL LAW
Owners of old equipment must dispose of it separately from unsorted municipal waste. WEEE may 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, for example, via local collection and return systems.
Owners of old appliances must also separate old batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed in the old appliance from the latter before handing them in at a collection point.
The latter does not apply insofar as the WEEE is separated from other WEEE in accordance with Section 14 (5) sentences 2 and 3 ElektroG within the framework of opting by the public waste management authorities for the purpose of preparing it for reuse.
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:
2. INFORMATION ON THE POSSIBILITIES OF RETURNING OLD APPLIANCES.
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.
You can view an online directory of collection and take-back points at the following link: https://www.ear-system.de/ear-verzeichnis/sammel-und-ruecknahmestellen.
3. NOTE ON DATA PROTECTION
Some 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): DE 62205885.