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The Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) contains a large number of requirements for the handling of electrical and electronic equipment. The most important ones are summarized here.

1. Separate collection of old appliances
   Electrical and electronic appliances that have become waste are referred to as old appliances. Owners of old appliances must dispose of them separately from unsorted municipal waste. In particular, old appliances do not belong in household waste, but in special collection and return systems.
2. Batteries, accumulators and lamps
   As a rule, owners of waste appliances must separate waste batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed in the waste appliance, as well as lamps that can be removed from the waste appliance without destroying them, from the waste appliance before handing them in at a collection point. This does not apply if waste appliances are prepared for reuse with the involvement of a public waste management authority.
3. Options for returning old appliances
   We work together with several qualified recycling companies to create opportunities for returning old appliances. If an appliance manufactured by us has become an old appliance and you would like to return it, please complete this questionnaire.
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 dustbin” symbol
   The crossed-out dustbin symbol regularly shown on electrical and electronic appliances indicates that the appliance in question must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of its service life.