Battery Law Notes

Note on the disposal of used batteries

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):

Free return of used batteries

Batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. You are legally obliged to return used batteries to ensure proper disposal. You can dispose of them at a municipal collection point or at your local retailer. As a battery distributor, we are also obligated to take back used batteries. However, our obligation to take back is limited to used batteries of the type that we carry or have carried as new batteries in our product range. You can therefore either return used batteries of the aforementioned type to us with sufficient postage or hand them in free of charge at our shipping warehouse at the address below.

Return address:

Köster & Hapke Forwarding
Kaufmann/Moovi
Wohlenbergstrasse 25
30179 Hanover

Meaning of the battery symbolsBatteries 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 - where “Cd” stands for cadmium, “Pb ” stands for lead and “Hg” for mercury.

Battery Act (BattG) recycling quota 2020 (Section 15 (3) Sentence 3 BattG)