Battery-Law-Notices
Batteries and electrical appliances do not belong in household waste.
Please do not dispose of batteries in your household waste. Every consumer is legally obligated to return batteries to a collection point in their community/district or to a retailer.
This ensures they are disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner. Household batteries are also collected free of charge by any Hermes delivery driver. Batteries containing hazardous substances bear the chemical symbols Cd for cadmium, Hg for mercury, and Pb for lead. Batteries are marked with this symbol:

Every consumer is legally obligated to dispose of old electrical appliances separately from household waste and, for example, to take them to a collection point in their municipality or district. Old electrical appliances are accepted there free of charge. This ensures that the old appliances are recycled properly and that negative environmental impacts are avoided.
Electrical appliances are marked with the following symbol:
