The environment - Instructions for recycling
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2. RECYCLING INSTRUCTIONS - OUR ENVIRONMENT POLICY
Our household appliances are only packaged using non-polluting, environmentally friendly, recyclable
materials. Please help by disposing of the packing correctly. You can obtain the addresses of collection,
recycling and disposal centres from your retailer or from the competent local organisations.
Never leave all or part of the packaging lying around. It can constitute a suffocation hazard for children,
especially the plastic bags.
Your old appliance also needs to be disposed of correctly.
Important:
deliver the appliance to your local organisation authorised to collect waste appliances.
Correct disposal enables intelligent recovery of valuable materials. Refrigeration appliances contain
gases which may damage the environment; it is therefore important to ensure that the refrigeration
circuit pipelines are not damaged until the competent service has accepted delivery of the appliance.
Before disposing of your appliance it is important to remove doors and leave shelves in their normal
positions to ensure that children cannot accidentally become trapped inside while playing. It is also
necessary to cut the connecting cable to the power supply network, removing it along with the plug.
NEVER LEAVE WASTE PACKAGING UNATTENDED IN THE HOME. SEPARATE THE VARIOUS
WASTE PACKAGING MATERIALS BY TYPE AND DELIVER THEM TO THE NEAREST
DIFFERENTIATED COLLECTION CENTRE.
INFORMATION FOR USERS:
Pursuant to Directives 2002/95/EC, 2002/96/EC and 2003/108/EC relating to the reduction of the use of
hazardous substances in electrical and electronic appliances, as well as to the disposal of refuse, the
crossed-out bin symbol on the appliance indicates that the product, at the end of its useful life, must be
collected separately from other refuse. Therefore, the user must consign the product that has reached
the end of its working life to the appropriate differentiated collection centres for electrical and electronic
refuse, or deliver it back to the retailer when purchasing an equivalent product, on a one for one basis.
Adequate differentiated collection for the subsequent forwarding of the decommissioned product to
recycling, treatment and ecologically compatible disposal contributes to avoiding possible negative
effects on the environment and on health and promotes the recycling of the materials of which the
appliance consists. Illicit disposal of the product by the user will result in the application of administrative
sanctions.
