Information on Batterieverodnung Germany (BattV)

Included in delivery of many devices are batteries, for example, for the operation of various items (vibrators, etc.). Also in the devices themselves can batteries or battery is fixed. In connection with the distribution of these batteries or batteries are we as a dealer pursuant BattV committed to our customers noted the following:

Please dispose of waste batteries, as prescribed by the legislature - in the disposal of household waste, according to Battery regulation explicitly prohibited - at a municipal assembly or enter them in free trade on the spot. We batteries can be preserved for use under the imprint free return address or sufficiently stamped by post return.

Batteries, the pollutants are incompatible with the symbol of a garbage durchgekreuzten Tone marked similar to the icon on the left. Under the garbage can icon is the chemical name of the pollutant - in the example left "CD" for cadmium. "Pb" stands for lead, "Hg" for mercury.

You can find this information even once in the documents accompanying the consignment or in the operating instructions of the manufacturer. For more information on Battery regulation can be found at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (www.bmu.de).