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ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - INFORMATION FOR PRIVATE HOUSEHOLDS
The Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) contains a large number of requirements for handling electrical
and electronic equipment. The most important requirements are summarized here.
1. Separate collection of old devices
Electrical and electronic equipment that has become waste is referred to as waste equipment. Owners of old devices
must collect them separately from unsorted municipal waste. In particular, old devices do not belong in household
waste, but in special collection and return systems..
2. Batteries and accumulators as well as lamps
Owners of old devices must usually separate old batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed by the old device,
as well as lamps that can be removed from the old device without destroying them, before handing them in at a col-
lection point. This does not apply if old devices are prepared for reuse with the participation of a public waste disposal
authority.
3. Possibilities of returning old devices
Owners of old devices from private households can hand them in free of charge to the collection points of the public
waste disposal authorities or to the take-back points set up by manufacturers or distributors within the meaning of the
ElektroG.
Shops with a sales area of at least 400 m² for electrical and electronic equipment and those grocery stores with a total
sales area of at least 800 m² that offer electrical and electronic equipment several times a year or permanently and
make it available on the market are subject to the obligation to take back. This also applies to sales using long-distance
means of communication if the storage and shipping areas for electrical and electronic equipment are at least 400 m²
or the total storage and shipping areas are at least 800 m². In principle, distributors must ensure that they are taken
back by providing suitable return options at a reasonable distance from the respective end user.
The possibility of returning an old device free of charge exists in the case of distributors who are obliged to take it back,
among other things, if a new device of the same type that essentially fulfills the same functions is handed over to an end
user. If a new device is delivered to a private household, the old device of the same type can also be handed over there
for collection free of charge; This applies to sales using means of distance communication for devices in categories 1,
2 or 4 in accordance with Section 2 (1) ElektroG, namely "heat exchangers", "display screen devices" or "large devices"
(the latter with at least one external dimension of more than 50 centimeters). End users are asked about a correspond-
ing return intention when concluding a purchase contract. There is also the option of returning old devices that are no
larger than 25 centimeters in any external dimension to the distributors' collection points free of charge, regardless of
the purchase of a new device, limited to three old devices per type of device.
4. Privacy 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.
5. Meaning of the "crossed-out" wheeled bin symbol
The symbol of a crossed-out garbage can, which is regularly shown on electrical and electronic devices, indicates that
the device in question must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of its service life.
Manufacturer information according to § 18 paragraph 4 ElektroG (new)
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