Battery Regulations

I. Notes on taking back used batteries

According to the Battery Act (BattG), batteries may not be disposed of with household waste. As an end user, you are therefore legally obliged to return old batteries. As a distributor of batteries and products that contain replaceable batteries, we are obliged to take back used batteries (with the exception of products with used batteries permanently installed), whereby our take-back obligation is limited to used batteries of the type that we carry or carry as new batteries in our range have and the amount that end-users typically discard.

You can therefore either send old batteries back to us with sufficient postage (then please insulate the poles for postage to avoid the risk of fire) or hand them in directly to our dispatch warehouse at the following address free of charge:
EMKE GmbH
Tichauer Weg 25
40231 Dusseldorf
Telephone: +44 1384 385894

Meaning of the battery symbols

Batteries are marked with the symbol of a crossed-out wheelie bin. Contaminated batteries are specially marked with chemical symbols. For batteries that contain more than 0.0005% by mass of mercury, more than 0.002% by mass of cadmium, or more than 0.004% by mass of lead, the chemical name of the pollutant used is located under the garbage can symbol – it is written next to it.

"Cd" stands for cadmium, "Pb" stands for lead, and "Hg" is for mercury.

II. Disposal of electrical and electronic equipment

Old electrical and electronic equipment must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste by their owners. Waste electrical and electronic equipment must therefore not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste. In particular, they do not belong in the household waste. Rather, such old devices should be collected separately and disposed of, for example, via local collection and return systems.

Old batteries and accumulators from old devices that are not enclosed by the old device must be separated from the old device by the owner before they are handed in at a collection point. This does not apply if the old devices are separated from other old devices in accordance with § 14 paragraph 5 sentences 2 and 3 ElektroG as part of the opting by the public waste management authorities for the purpose of preparing them for reuse in order to prepare them for reuse.

Options for returning old devices:

Owners of waste electrical and electronic equipment can hand it to public waste disposal authorities that have been set up and made available to them or to collection points to ensure that the old equipment is disposed of properly. It may also be possible to hand in electrical and electronic equipment there for the purpose of reusing the equipment. You can obtain more detailed information on this from the respective collection point or take-back point itself.

As a manufacturer of electrical and electronic devices, we have created the possibility for you as the owner to return old electrical and electronic devices: Contact us to deliver the devices:
EMKE GmbH
Tichauer Weg 25
40231 Dusseldorf
Telephone: +44 1384 385894

Note on data protection

Despite deletion or formatting, old devices often still contain (recoverable) sensitive personal data (e.g. on hard drives and SSD memory chips of PCs, copiers, scanners, laptops, or smartphones), which should not get into the hands of third parties.

We therefore expressly point out that owners of old electrical and electronic equipment are responsible for deleting personal data on the old equipment to be disposed of.

Meaning of the symbol according to Annex 3 to the ElektroG Owners of old electrical and electronic equipment can be identified by the symbol of a crossed-out wheeled bin in accordance with Annex 3 to the ElektroG, which is shown below, and which must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste.