Information on the Waste Equipment Ordinance

Act on the Placing on the Market, Taking Back and Environmentally Sound Disposal of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act - ElektroOG)

Note on the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act - ElektroOG

• As required by law, please dispose of old appliances at a municipal collection centre or hand them in at your local retailer free of charge. Disposal in household waste is expressly prohibited by the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Ordinance!
• Old appliances that contain harmful substances are labelled with the symbol of a crossed-out dustbin (Anex  3  ElektroG). We are not obliged to dispose of the appliances we receive, as our sales outlets and warehouses are less than 400 square metres in total, see below (exception to the take-back obligation). Please note separately our informations for battery disposal!
• We are not obliged to dispose of the appliances we receive, as our sales outlets and warehouses are less than 400 square metres in total, see below (exception to the take-back obligation). Please note separately our informations for battery disposal!
• Please delete personal data on the old devices to be disposed of (if relevant) on your own responsibility as the end user.

Exception to the take-back obligation:
However, the new information obligations do not apply to every distributor, but only to those distributors who are covered by the new take-back obligation under § 17 Section 1, 2 ElektroG. This take-back obligation only applies to distributors if they have a sales area for electrical and electronic equipment of at least 400 square metres. With regard to the online distributors relevant here, sales area in this sense means all storage and dispatch areas for electrical and electronic equipment. If an online retailer has storage and dispatch areas for electrical and electronic equipment of at least 400 square metres, it is subject to the take-back obligation under § 17 Abs. 1, 2 ElektroG and thus also (and only then) to the information obligations under  § 18 Abs. 2 ElektroG  vis-à-vis private households. (Source: https://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de)

These information obligations do not apply to us, as our sales and storage areas are less than 400 square metres in total. Nevertheless, we are informing you here for the sake of completeness and environmental protection.