Environment and returns
Courtesy translation. The German version of this page is legally binding.
A. Batteries and rechargeable batteries
The following information is addressed to anyone who uses batteries or products with built-in batteries and no longer resells them in the form in which they were delivered (end users). At Stone Heap, this applies for example to the remote control & battery box.
1. Free return of waste batteries
Batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. You are legally obliged to return waste batteries so that they can be disposed of properly. You can hand in waste batteries at a municipal collection point or at a local retailer. As a distributor of batteries, we are also obliged to take back waste batteries; this obligation is limited to waste batteries of the type that we carry or have carried as new batteries in our range. You can therefore either send waste batteries of this type back to us with sufficient postage or hand them in free of charge directly at our dispatch warehouse at the address given in our legal notice.
2. Meaning of the 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 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 symbol of the substance concerned is shown below the bin symbol: “Cd” stands for cadmium, “Pb” for lead and “Hg” for mercury.
3. Separate disclosure of producer costs for batteries
The producers’ costs for the take-back, sorting, recycling and disposal of waste batteries are included in the price. The current breakdown can be found here (in German): batterie-zurueck.de
4. Waste prevention and management of waste batteries
Information on how to prevent waste from batteries and on the collection and recycling of waste batteries (Article 74 of the EU Battery Regulation) is provided by our take-back partner take-e-way GmbH (in German): take-e-way.de
B. Electrical and electronic equipment
The following information is addressed to private households that use electrical and/or electronic equipment. Please observe this important information in the interest of environmentally sound disposal of waste equipment and for your own safety. At Stone Heap, this applies for example to the motors and the remote control & battery box.
1. Disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment and meaning of the symbol according to Annex 3 of the German Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG)
Owners of waste equipment must hand it in for collection separately from unsorted municipal waste. Waste electrical and electronic equipment must therefore not be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste and in particular does not belong in household waste. Instead, it must be collected separately and disposed of, for example, via the local collection and return systems.
Before handing in waste equipment at a collection point, owners must also remove waste batteries and accumulators that are not enclosed by the equipment, as well as lamps that can be removed without being destroyed.
The symbol according to Annex 3 of the ElektroG allows owners to recognise equipment that must be collected separately from unsorted municipal waste at the end of its life. The symbol for the separate collection of electrical and electronic equipment shows a crossed-out wheeled bin.
2. Free take-back of waste equipment by distributors
Distributors with a sales area for electrical and electronic equipment of at least 400 square metres (for distance selling: storage and dispatch areas for electrical and electronic equipment of at least 400 square metres), as well as food retailers with a total sales area of at least 800 square metres (for distance selling: total storage and dispatch areas of at least 800 square metres) that offer and make available electrical and electronic equipment several times a calendar year or permanently, are obliged to take back waste equipment from end users free of charge: when a contract of sale for new equipment is concluded, one item of waste equipment of the same type that essentially fulfils the same functions, and regardless of any purchase, up to three items of waste equipment per type with no external dimension larger than 25 centimetres. An overview of the equipment categories can be found here (in German).
3. Options for returning waste equipment
Owners of waste equipment can hand it in using the return and collection options set up and provided by the public waste management authorities, so that proper disposal is ensured. Where applicable, electrical and electronic equipment can also be handed in there for reuse. Further information is available from the respective collection or return point. An online directory of collection and return points can be found here (in German).
4. Data protection notice
Waste equipment to be disposed of sometimes contains sensitive personal data (for example on a PC or smartphone) that must not fall into the hands of third parties. We expressly point out that end users of waste equipment are themselves responsible for deleting personal data on the equipment to be disposed of.
5. Our WEEE registration number
We are registered with Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Register, Nordostpark 72, 90411 Nürnberg, Germany, as a producer of electrical and/or electronic equipment under the following registration number (WEEE Reg. No. DE): DE 37084294