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2. Batteries, accumulators and lamps
Owners of WEEE must hand over them in complete condition. However,
owners of WEEE have to separate old batteries and accumulators
which are not enclosed by the WEEE, as well as lamps which can be
removed, from the WEEE without destroying it before handing it over
to a collection point.
3. Ways to return the WEEE
Owners of WEEE from private households can hand them in free of
charge at the designated collection points of the public waste disposal
authorities or at the take- back points set up by manufacturers or
distributors in terms of the Directive 2012/19/ EU.
4. Privacy Protection Notice
WEEE often contain sensitive personal data. This applies especially
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 WEEE before
disposing it.
5. Potential environmental impact
WEEE contain substances that may have a negative impact on the
environment and human health if their collection, hand-over, re-use or
material recovery is not done in compliance with respective legislation.
6. Your role in WEEE waste treatment
By fulfilling these obligations and especially by fulfilling the obligation
to collect WEEE separately, not to dispose it together with unsorted
municipal waste and to hand it over to at collection points, you as the
end user contribute to the re-use and material recovery of WEEE.
7. Meaning of the crossed-out dustbin symbol
The crossed-out dustbin, which is regularly displayed on electrical and
electronic equipment, indicates that the respective device must be
collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of its
life cycle.
