Information on battery disposal
Note on the disposal of used batteries
The following notice applies to end users who use batteries or products with built-in batteries: 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 dispose of used batteries at a municipal collection centre or at your local retailer. As a distributor of batteries, we are also obliged to take back used batteries, although our obligation to take back batteries is limited to used batteries of the type that we carry or have carried as new batteries in our own range.
You can therefore either return used batteries of the aforementioned type to us with sufficient postage or return them directly to our dispatch warehouse at the following address free of charge:
Ecologa Europe GmbH / Patricia Bös
Ziegelhüttenstr. 11 11
63768 Hösbach
Meaning of the battery symbols
Batteries are labelled with the symbol of a crossed-out dustbin. This symbol indicates that batteries should not be disposed of with household waste. For batteries that contain more than 0.0005 per cent mercury by mass, more than 0.002 per cent cadmium by mass or more than 0.004 per cent lead by mass you will find the chemical name of the pollutant used under the waste bin symbol.
Information on electrical and electronic appliances
Below you will find information for private households that use electrical and/or electronic appliances:
1. information on the disposal of electrical and electronic equipment and the meaning of the symbol in the Annex
Old appliances must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste. (Old) electrical appliances may not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste. In particular, these appliances must not be disposed of with household waste. Waste electrical and electronic equipment must be collected and can be disposed of via the local collection system.
Waste batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed by the waste appliance and lamps that can be removed intact from the waste appliance must be separated from the waste appliances before being handed in at a collection point, unless the waste appliances are separated from other waste appliances by the public waste management authorities in accordance with 8 14 (4) sentence 4 or (5) sentences 2 and 3 ElektroG with a view to preparing them for reuse.
The symbol in accordance with Annex 3 of the ElektroG (a crossed-out wheeled bin) indicates old appliances that must not be disposed of with unsorted municipal waste at the end of their service life:
