Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment

The following information is intended for private households that use electrical and/or electronic equipment. Please observe these important instructions in the interest of environmentally friendly disposal of old equipment and your own safety.

1) Notes on the disposal of (old) electrical and electronic equipment and the meaning of the symbol according to appendix 3 of the German ElektroG

Owners of old appliances have to collect them separately from unsorted municipal waste. Waste electrical and electronic equipment may therefore not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste and in particular does not belong in household waste. Instead, these old appliances must be collected separately and disposed of, for example, via the local collection and return systems.

Owners of old appliances must also separate used batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed by the old appliance from it before handing them in at a collection point.

The latter does not apply if the old equipment is separated from other old equipment in accordance with § 14 paragraph 5 sentences 2 and 3 ElektroG within the scope of the opting by the public disposal authorities for the purpose of preparing it for re-use, in order to prepare it for re-use.

By means of the symbol according to Appendix 3 of the ElektroG, owners can identify old appliances that are to be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of their service life. The symbol for the separate collection of electrical and electronic equipment represents a crossed-out wheeled garbage can and is designed as follows 

You can dispose of your small old appliances free of charge in the usual household quantities in our branches as well as in our Interseroh collection point network. You are entitled to return a large old appliance (at least one edge length greater than 25 cm) if you have previously purchased a new appliance with the same function from a mail-order company that participates in our take-back system. In this case we will provide you with a return voucher on request, which you hand in at the collection point together with the respective old device. You can find out exactly how the return voucher request works and where you can find collection points in your vicinity on the Interseroh website.

2) Note on data protection

Some of the old devices to be disposed of contain sensitive personal data (e.g. on a PC or a smartphone), which must not fall into the hands of third parties.

We point out that end users of old equipment are responsible for the deletion of personal data on the old equipment to be disposed of.

3) Note on our WEEE registration number

We are registered with the Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Register, Nordostpark 72 in 90411 Nuremberg as a manufacturer of electrical and/or electronic equipment under the following registration number (WEEE-Reg. No. DE): DE 26062814