Disposal; Product; Rechargeable) Batteries - Renkforce 2521586 Bedienungsanleitung

16. Disposal

a) Product
All electrical and electronic equipment placed on the European market must be labelled with this symbol.
This symbol indicates that this device should be disposed of separately from unsorted municipal waste at
the end of its service life.
Owners of WEEE shall dispose of it separately from unsorted municipal waste. Spent batteries and ac-
cumulators, which are not enclosed by the WEEE, as well as lamps that can be removed from the WEEE
in a non-destructive manner, must be removed by end users from the WEEE in a non-destructive manner
before it is handed over to a collection point.
Distributors of electrical and electronic equipment are legally obliged to provide free take-back of waste. Conrad offers
the following free return options (further information is available on our website):
• at our Conrad stores
• at the collection points established by Conrad
• at the collection points of public waste disposal agencies or at the collection systems set up by manufacturers and
distributors in accordance with the German Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act.
The end user is responsible for deleting personal data from the WEEE to be disposed of.
It should be noted that different obligations about the return or recycling of WEEE may apply in countries outside of
Germany.
b) (Rechargeable) batteries
Remove any inserted batteries and dispose of them separately from the product. You as the end user are required
by law (Battery Ordinance) to return all used batteries/rechargeable batteries. Disposing of them in the household
waste is prohibited.
Batteries/rechargeable batteries containing hazardous substances are labelled with this symbol to indicate
that disposal in household waste is forbidden. The abbreviations for heavy metals in batteries are: Cd =
Cadmium, Hg = Mercury, Pb = Lead (name on batteries/rechargeable batteries, e.g. below the trash icon
on the left).
Used batteries/rechargeable batteries can be returned free of charge to local collection points, our stores or battery
retailers. You thus fulfil your statutory obligations and contribute to environmental protection.
Batteries/rechargeable batteries that are disposed of should be protected against short circuit and their exposed ter-
minals should be covered completely with insulating tape before disposal. Even empty batteries/rechargeable batter-
ies can contain residual energy that may cause them to swell, burst, catch fire or explode in the event of a short circuit.
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