Battery ordinance

Information on the Battery Ordinance
The German Battery Ordinance aims to reduce the entry of harmful substances into waste through batteries by prohibiting the marketing of certain harmful batteries and establishing take-back obligations.
The basic background of the Battery Ordinance – which you can always find more information about through the links provided below – is the seller's obligation to offer appropriate return systems for sold batteries, accumulators, etc.

- Batteries do not belong in household waste
- Batteries are special waste that needs to be disposed of
- As a seller, we are obliged to offer you, the customer, return options for batteries
- As a seller, we are required to ensure that we accept batteries here on-site or offer you return options at a reasonable distance from your location.

Excerpt from the Battery Ordinance
§ 5 Obligations of Distributors (1) 1Anyone who sells batteries to end consumers is obligated to take back batteries free of charge from the end consumer at the point of sale or in its immediate vicinity. 2In mail-order trade, the return must be ensured by appropriate return options at a reasonable distance from the end consumer. 3The obligation to take back according to sentence 1 is limited to batteries of the type that the distributor has in its assortment or has had, as well as to the quantity that end consumers typically dispose of. (2) 1The distributor is obliged to transfer the returned batteries to a return system of the manufacturers according to § 4 Abs. 2 or, if a manufacturer has set up its own return system according to § 4 Abs. 3, to transfer them to that. 2§ 4 Abs. 3 sentence 4 remains unaffected. (3) Paragraph 2 does not apply to starter batteries or the batteries mentioned in § 8. (4) § 4 Abs. 5 applies accordingly.

Explanations
Batteries or accumulators containing harmful substances are marked with the symbol of a crossed-out trash can.
Next to the trash can symbol, the chemical designation of the harmful substance appears. "CD" stands for Cadmium, "Pb" for Lead, and "Hg" for Mercury. If in doubt, please contact us.

Your contact at kaufbei.tv

Kaufbei GmbH
Oeynhausener Str. 54
32584 Löhne
Germany
Phone: 05731-2451510
Email: post (at)kaufbei.tv

or use our contact form in the shop
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Information on Battery Disposal

In connection with the sale of batteries or with the delivery of devices containing batteries, we are obliged to inform you of the following:
You are legally required to return used batteries as an end user. You can return used batteries, which we have sold as new batteries, free of charge to our shipping warehouse (shipping address). The symbols on the batteries have the following meaning:
The symbol of the crossed-out trash can means that the battery must not be disposed of in household waste.
Pb = Battery contains more than 0.004 mass percent lead
Cd = Battery contains more than 0.002 mass percent cadmium
Hg = Battery contains more than 0.0005 mass percent mercury.

Please observe the above information.

Kaufbei GmbH
Oeynhausener Str. 54
32584 Löhne
Germany
Phone: 05731-2451510
Email: post (at)kaufbei.tv