Information on the disposal of used batteries
The following notice is intended for 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. take back used batteries free of charge
Batteries may not be disposed of with household waste. You are legally obliged to return used batteries so that proper disposal can be guaranteed. 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, whereby 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 range. You can therefore either return used batteries of the aforementioned type to us with sufficient postage or hand them in free of charge directly to our dispatch warehouse at the address given in the legal notice.
2 Meaning of the battery symbols
Batteries are labelled with the symbol of a crossed-out dustbin. This symbol indicates that batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. 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 are labelled with the chemical name of the pollutant used under the dustbin symbol – “Cd” stands for cadmium, “Pb” for lead and “Hg” for mercury.