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15 Disposal
15.1 Product
This symbol must appear on any electrical and electronic equipment
placed on the EU market. This symbol indicates that this device should
not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste at the end of its service
life.
Owners of WEEE (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment) shall
dispose of it separately from unsorted municipal waste. Spent batter-
ies and accumulators, which are not enclosed by the WEEE, as well as
lamps that can be removed from the WEEE in a non-destructive manner,
must be removed by end users from the WEEE in a non-destructive man-
ner before it is handed over to a collection point.
Distributors of electrical and electronic equipment are legally obliged to provide free
take-back of waste. Conrad provides the following return options
free of charge
(more details on our website):
in our Conrad offices
at the Conrad collection points
at the collection points of public waste management authorities or the collection
points set up by manufacturers or distributors within the meaning of the ElektroG
End users are responsible for deleting personal data from the WEEE to be disposed
of.
It should be noted that different obligations about the return or recycling of WEEE
may apply in countries outside of Germany.
