Note on the disposal of used batteries &
Taking back electrical and electronic devices

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

1. Free return of old batteries

Batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. You are legally obliged to return old batteries so that they can be disposed of correctly. You can hand in used batteries at a municipal collection point or at your local store. As a battery distributor, we are also obliged to take back old batteries, although 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 send used batteries of the aforementioned type back to us with sufficient postage or hand them in free of charge directly to our shipping warehouse at the following address:

Tradeo GmbH
Mountain 24
84104 Rudelzhausen

2. Meaning of the battery symbols

Batteries are marked with the symbol of a crossed out garbage can (see below). This symbol indicates that batteries must 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 located under the garbage can symbol - "Cd" stands for cadmium, "Pb" stands for lead, and "Hg" for mercury.

3. Taking back electrical and electronic devices

The following information is aimed at private households that use electrical and/or electronic devices. Please note these important instructions in the interest of environmentally friendly disposal of old devices and your own safety.

Information on the disposal of electrical and electronic devices and the meaning of the symbol according to Appendix 3 to the ElektroG:

Owners of old devices must collect them separately from unsorted municipal waste. Old electrical and electronic devices must therefore not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste and in particular do not belong in household waste. Rather, these old devices must be collected separately and disposed of via local collection and return systems.
Owners of old devices must also separate old batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed in the old device before handing them over to a collection point. The latter does not apply if the old devices are separated from other old devices in accordance with Section 14 Paragraph 5 Sentence 2 and 3 ElektroG as part of the opting by the public waste disposal authorities for the purpose of preparing them for reuse in order to prepare them for reuse.
Using the symbol in Appendix 3 to the ElektroG, owners can identify old devices that must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste. The symbol for the separate collection of electrical and electronic equipment is a crossed-out wheeled bin and is designed as follows:

Information on the possibility of returning old devices:

To make the return as easy as possible for you, all you have to do is use our contact form(click here) register. You will then receive all the information you need to complete the return as quickly as possible.

Note on data protection

Old devices that are to be disposed of sometimes contain sensitive personal data (e.g. on a PC or a smartphone) that must not fall into the hands of third parties. We expressly point out that end users of old devices are responsible for deleting personal data on the old devices to be disposed of.