Battery Disposal

Information on the disposal of old batteries

The following information is directed at those who use batteries or products with built-in batteries and no longer resell them in the form in which they were supplied (end users):

1. Free return of old batteries

Batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. You are legally obliged to return old batteries so that proper disposal can be ensured. You can hand in old batteries at a municipal collection point or at local retailers. As distributors of batteries, we are also obliged to take back old batteries, whereby our obligation to take back old batteries is limited to those types of old batteries that we carry or have carried as new batteries in our product range. Old batteries of the aforementioned type can therefore either be sent back to us with sufficient postage or handed in free of charge directly at our warehouse at the address given in the imprint.

2. Meaning of the battery symbols

Batteries are marked with the symbol of a crossed-out wheeled bin (see below). This symbol indicates that batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. For batteries containing more than 0.0005 percent by mass of mercury, more than 0.002 percent by mass of cadmium or more than 0.004 percent by mass of lead, the chemical designation of the respective pollutant used is located below the wheeled bin symbol - "Cd" stands for cadmium, "Pb" for lead, and "Hg" for mercury.