Recycling
Notes on battery regulations
In connection with the sale of batteries and accumulators, we as dealers are obliged in accordance with the Battery Ordinance to inform our customers about the regulations and obligations regarding the return and disposal of used batteries and accumulators.
As a consumer, you are legally obliged to return batteries and accumulators according to §11 BattG. After use, you can return them to our sales point, to a municipal collection point or to a local retailer.
Batteries containing pollutants are marked with a symbol consisting of a crossed-out garbage can and the chemical symbol (Cd for cadmium, Hg for mercury or, Pb for lead) of the heavy metal that is decisive for the classification as containing pollutants.
Batteries and accumulators must under no circumstances be disposed of with household waste; instead, you can hand them in free of charge to us or to the designated collection and return points. Our take-back obligations are limited to quantities that end users usually dispose of.
Batteries received from us can be returned to us free of charge after use at the address below or sent back to us by post with sufficient postage. Disposal in household waste is expressly prohibited according to the battery regulations!
RCM IT Refurbish Center GmbH
Max-Eyth-Strasse 27
D-70736 Fellbach
Phone +49 (0)711 577 08 18 0
Information in accordance with the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG)
In accordance with the legal requirements regarding the placing on the market, the return and the environmentally friendly disposal of electrical and electronic equipment (ElektroG), we are obliged to provide private households with comprehensive information.
Manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment must mark their products that are placed on the market after November 23, 2005 with a symbol (a crossed-out wheeled bin) and take them back free of charge. Such old devices should not be disposed of with household waste, but should be separated, collected and disposed of using appropriate collection and return systems.
Private households must dispose of old electrical equipment (WEEE) that they no longer want to use in an environmentally friendly manner. In doing so, they must collect old electrical devices separately from unsorted municipal waste and separate old batteries and accumulators from old electrical devices if they are not enclosed by the old electrical device and insofar as EAG is not in accordance with Section 14 Paragraph 5 Sentence 2 and 3 ElektroG can be separated in order to prepare them for reuse.
As a distributor with a sales, storage and shipping area for electrical and electronic equipment of at least 400 m², we are obliged
When a new electrical or electronic device is handed over to an end user, to take back free of charge an old device of the end user of the same type of device, which essentially fulfills the same functions as the new device, at the place of delivery or in the immediate vicinity thereof, and
Old devices that are not larger than 25 cm in any external dimension can be taken back free of charge in normal household quantities either in a retail store or in the immediate vicinity, whereby the take-back is not linked to the purchase of an electrical or electronic device.
Electrical and electronic devices that fall under the ElektroG are in particular the devices listed in Appendix 1 to the ElektroG.
- Important note: The end user is responsible for securing and deleting personal data as well as operational and business secrets on the EAG to be disposed of. RCM IT Refurbish Center GmbH assumes no liability for possible data loss or data misuse and any resulting damage.