Battery Act Information

Note on the disposal of used batteries

The following information is for those who use batteries or products with built-in batteries and no longer resell them in the form in which they were supplied (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 hand in used batteries at a municipal collection point or at local retailers. As distributors of batteries, we are also obliged to take back used batteries, whereby our obligation to take back used batteries is limited to those types of used batteries that we carry or have carried as new batteries in our product 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 at our shipping warehouse at the address given below.

Return address:

Köster & Hapke Spedition
Kaufmann/Moovi
Wohlenbergstraße 25
30179 Hanover

Meaning of battery symbols

Batteries are marked with the symbol of a crossed-out wheeled bin. This symbol indicates that batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. For batteries containing 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 symbol of the respective pollutant used is located below the wheeled bin symbol - "Cd" stands for cadmium, "Pb" stands for lead, and "Hg" for mercury.

Battery Act (BattG) Recycling Rate 2020 (§ 15 Para. 3 Sentence 3 BattG)