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Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act

Purpose of the ElektroG

The "ElektroG" (Law on the placing on the market, the take-back and the environmentally friendly disposal of electrical and electronic devices from October 20, 2015) is intended to implement the waste-related product responsibility of the manufacturers of electrical and electronic devices. It serves the goals

  • to protect health and the environment from harmful substances from electrical and electronic equipment and
  • to reduce the amount of waste by reuse or recovery.

Manufacturers - in addition to producers also importers and exporters and distributors - of electrical and electronic devices are significantly more responsible for the entire life cycle of the devices. The municipalities are obliged to accept old electrical and electronic equipment from private households at collection points. There they are to be picked up by the manufacturers and properly disposed of. The manufacturers are also responsible for the proper disposal of devices that are used exclusively in the commercial sector and were placed on the market after August 13, 2005. The manufacturers have to provide their own take-back system for the old devices. If the devices were installed before August 13, 2005 (or before October 24, 2015,

Consumers are obliged to dispose of their discarded electrical and electronic equipment separately from household waste. You can hand them in free of charge at the municipal collection points. Alternatively, you can use a take-back system from manufacturers or distributors of electrical and electronic equipment. In addition, distributors with a sales area for electrical and electronic equipment of at least 400 square meters are obliged to take back an old device of the same type, which essentially fulfills the same functions as the new device, free of charge when a new electrical or electronic device is sold to an end user (1 : 1 return) and take back old devices, which are not larger than 25 centimeters in any external dimension, free of charge in normal household quantities, the return cannot be linked to the purchase of an electrical or electronic device (0: 1 return). The same applies to the mail order business, in which case the minimum area of ​​400 square meters refers to the retailer's entire storage and shipping area. It is up to the dealer to decide whether the old devices can then simply be sent to the dealer or whether they can arrange another form of return. All in all, there is a nine-month transition period for the implementation of the trade's take-back obligation, so it must be possible to deliver it to all committed distributors by July 24, 2016 at the latest. in this case, the minimum area of ​​400 square meters refers to the retailer's entire storage and shipping area. It is up to the dealer to decide whether the old devices can then simply be sent to the dealer or whether they can arrange another form of return. All in all, there is a nine-month transition period for the implementation of the trade's take-back obligation, so it must be possible to deliver it to all committed distributors by July 24, 2016 at the latest. in this case, the minimum area of ​​400 square meters refers to the retailer's entire storage and shipping area. It is up to the dealer to decide whether the old devices can then simply be sent to the dealer or whether they can arrange another form of return. All in all, there is a nine-month transition period for the implementation of the trade's take-back obligation, so it must be possible to deliver it to all committed distributors by July 24, 2016 at the latest.

Before consumers decide to dispose of an electrical or electronic device, they should check whether the device can possibly be used for other purposes. In many cases, prolonged use protects the environment, especially if this prevents the old device from being disposed of prematurely and the unnecessary production of a new device avoided. Under no circumstances should electrical appliances be disposed of in household waste. This not only means that valuable raw materials for the material cycle are lost, but also that pollutants are also added to household waste. For information about which devices are accepted by the collection points or return systems, electrical devices are marked with a clear symbol, the crossed-out waste bin.

(Source: Federal Environment Agency website)

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