Our duty to inform according to the battery law

Information on the disposal of used batteries

1. take back used batteries free of charge Batteries must 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 (see below). This symbol indicates that batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. For batteries containing 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, the chemical name of the pollutant used is shown under the dustbin symbol - ‘Cd’ stands for cadmium, ‘Pb’ for lead and ‘Hg’ for mercury.

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