Battery Disposal

Information on the disposal of used batteries

The following information is 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. Free return of used batteries

Batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. You are legally obliged to return used batteries so that they can be disposed of properly. You can hand in used batteries at a municipal collection point or at local retailers. 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 product range. Used batteries of the aforementioned type can therefore either be returned to us with sufficient postage or handed in free of charge directly at our shipping warehouse at the address given in the imprint.

2. Meaning of battery symbols

Batteries are marked 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 percent by mass of mercury, more than 0.002 percent by mass of cadmium or more than 0.004 percent by mass of lead, the chemical name of the respective pollutant used is located below the dustbin symbol - "Cd" stands for cadmium, "Pb" for lead, and "Hg" for mercury.