Take-back of old appliances

Electrical and electronic equipment - Information for private households

The Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) contains a large number of requirements for the handling of electrical and electronic equipment. The most important ones are compiled here.

Separate collection of old devices

Electrical and electronic equipment that has become waste is referred to as WEEE. Owners of old appliances must collect them separately from unsorted municipal waste. Furthermore old appliances do not belong in household waste, but in special collection and return systems.

 
Batteries and accumulators

As a rule, owners of old appliances must separate used batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed in the old appliance from the old appliance before they are handed in at a collection point. This does not apply to the extent that the waste equipment is handed over to public waste management authorities and separated from other waste equipment there for the purpose of preparation for reuse.

 
Options for returning old equipment

Owners of old appliances from private households can hand them in at the collection points of the public waste management authorities or at the take-back points set up by manufacturers or distributors within the meaning of the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act.

 
Privacy Notice

Legacy equipment often contains sensitive personal data. This applies in particular to information and telecommunications technology devices such as computers and smartphones. In your own interest, please note that each end-user is responsible for the deletion of the data on the old devices to be disposed of.

 
Meaning of the symbol "crossed-out garbage can"

The symbol of a crossed-out garbage can, which is regularly depicted on electrical and electronic equipment, indicates that the device in question must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of its service life.

Learn more

We are a member of the take-back system "take-e-way". Further information can be found under Information obligations pursuant to Section 18 (2) of the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act