Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG)
Information for private households
The German Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) contains a number of requirements for the handling of electrical and electronic equipment. The most important ones are summarized here.
1. Separate collection of waste equipment
Electrical and electronic equipment that has become waste is referred to as waste equipment. Owners of waste equipment must dispose of it separately from unsorted municipal waste. In particular, waste equipment does not belong in household waste, but in special collection and return systems.
2. Batteries and rechargeable batteries
Owners of waste equipment must generally separate old batteries and rechargeable batteries that are not enclosed in the waste equipment before handing them in at a collection point. This does not apply if the waste equipment is handed in to public waste disposal authorities and separated there for the purpose of preparing other waste equipment for reuse.
3. Options for returning old appliances
Owners of old appliances from private households can hand them in at collection points run by public waste disposal authorities or at collection points set up by manufacturers or distributors in accordance with the ElektroG. An online directory of collection and return points can be found here:
https://www.ear-system.de/ear-verzeichnis/sammel-und-ruecknahmestellen.jsf
4. Data protection notice
Old devices often contain sensitive personal data. This applies in particular to information and telecommunications technology devices such as computers and smartphones. In your own interest, please note that each end user is responsible for deleting the data on the old devices to be disposed of.
5. Meaning of the “crossed-out wheelie bin” symbol
The symbol of a crossed-out wheelie bin regularly displayed on electrical and electronic equipment
indicates that the respective device must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of its service life.
6. Manufacturer registration number
As a distributor/manufacturer within the meaning of the ElektroG, Graf Lichttechnik UG (limited liability) is registered with the responsible Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Register (Nordostpark 72, 90411 Nuremberg) under the following registration number: DE68078335
7. Information requirements pursuant to Section 18 (2) sentence 3 of the German Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (annual status of nationwide fulfillment of the quantitative targets pursuant to Section 10 (3) and Section 22 (1) ElektroG):
https://www.take-e-way.de/leistungen/berichts-und-informationspflichten/