Electrical and Electronic Equipment – Information from Manufacturers for Commercial Users

The German Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) contains a variety of requirements for handling electrical and electronic equipment. The most important ones are summarized below.

Electrical and electronic equipment that has become waste is referred to as waste equipment. Owners of waste equipment must ensure its separate collection from unsorted municipal waste. Waste equipment should not be disposed of in household waste but instead through designated collection and return systems.

Owners of waste equipment must, as a general rule, remove waste batteries and accumulators not enclosed by the equipment, as well as lamps that can be removed without damage, prior to delivering the equipment to a collection point. This does not apply if waste equipment is being prepared for reuse with the involvement of a public waste disposal authority.

To facilitate the return of waste equipment, we cooperate with several qualified recycling companies. If a device manufactured by us has become waste equipment and you wish to return it, please visit: https://www.take-e-way.de/leistungen/elektrogesetz-weee-elektrog/b2b-altgeraete-ruecknahme-entsorgung/ and complete the questionnaire.

Waste equipment often contains sensitive personal data, particularly devices used for information and communication technology such as computers and smartphones. Please be aware that each end user is personally responsible for deleting data on the waste equipment to be disposed of.

The symbol of a crossed-out wheelie bin, commonly displayed on electrical and electronic equipment, indicates that the device must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of its life cycle.