Battery Ordinance

Note on the disposal of old batteries

The following note is aimed at those who use batteries or products with built-in batteries and no longer resell them in the form supplied to them (end users):

1. Free return of used batteries
Batteries should not be disposed of with household waste. You are legally obliged to return old batteries so that proper disposal can be guaranteed. You can hand in used batteries at a municipal collection point or at a local retailer. As a distributor of batteries, we are also obliged to take back used batteries, whereby our take-back obligation is limited to used batteries of the type that we carry or have carried as new batteries in our range You can therefore either return used batteries of the aforementioned type to us with sufficient postage or return them free of charge to our dispatch warehouse at the address given in the imprint.

2. Meaning of the battery symbols
Batteries are marked with the symbol of a crossed-out wheelie bin (see below). This symbol indicates that batteries should not be disposed of with household waste. For batteries that contain more than 0.0005 percent by mass of mercury, more than 0.002 percent by mass of cadmium or more than 0.004 percent by mass of lead, the chemical name of the pollutant used is under the garbage can symbol – “Cd” stands for cadmium, “Pb” “stands for lead, and” Hg “for mercury.

3. Vehicle batteries
When selling vehicle batteries (these are batteries that are intended for the starter, lighting, or vehicle ignition), the following special features apply: According to § 10 BattG, the seller is obliged to pay a deposit of € 7.50 per battery including sales tax, if the end user does not return an old vehicle battery to the seller at the time of purchase of the new vehicle battery. The customer receives a deposit voucher when purchasing a vehicle battery. The customer can return the old vehicle battery to the seller to reimburse the deposit. Due to the Hazardous Goods Ordinance, it is not permitted to send the old vehicle battery to the seller. Alternatively, the customer can return the old vehicle battery to a collection point set up by the public waste disposal agency. If the old vehicle battery is not returned to the seller collecting the deposit, the person authorized to collect the old vehicle battery in accordance with Section 11 Paragraph 3, BattG, is obliged to confirm the return of the old vehicle battery in writing or electronically to the end user upon request without a deposit being refunded. In this case, the customer will be reimbursed the levied deposit from the seller, if he has given the seller a written deposit.