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13. Disposal
a) Product
All electrical and electronic equipment placed on the European market must be labelled with this symbol.
This symbol indicates that this device should be disposed of separately from unsorted municipal waste at
the end of its service life.
All owners of waste equipment are obliged to dispose of waste equipment separately from unsorted mu-
nicipal waste. Before handing the old device to a collection point, end users are required to separate old
batteries which are not enclosed by the old device, as well as lamps which can be removed from the old
device without any damage.
Distributors of electrical and electronic equipment are legally required to accept waste equipment free of charge.
Conrad offers the following
free
return options (further information is available on our website):
• At our Conrad stores
• At the collection points established by Conrad
• At the collection points of public waste disposal agencies or at the collection systems set up by manufacturers and
distributors in accordance with the German Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act.
The end user is responsible for deleting personal data on the old device before disposal.
Please note that in countries outside Germany, other obligations may apply to the return and recycling of old devices.
b)
(Rechargeable) batteries
Remove any inserted batteries and dispose of them separately from the product. As the end user; you are required by
law to return all used batteries (Battery Directive). They must not be placed in household waste.
Batteries/rechargeable batteries containing hazardous substances are labelled with this symbol to indi-
cate that disposal in household waste is forbidden. The abbreviations for heavy metals in batteries are:
Cd=Cadmium, Hg=Mercury, Pb=Lead (marked on batteries, e.g., under the rubbish bin symbol shown to
the left).
Used batteries can be returned to local collection points, our stores or battery retailers. You thus fulfil your statutory
obligations and contribute to environmental protection.
Before disposal, the exposed contacts of batteries must be fully covered with a piece of adhesive tape to prevent
short-circuits. Even if batteries are depleted, the remaining energy may present a hazard in the event of a short-circuit
(bursting, severe heating, fire, explosion).
