Environmental Aspects - IKEA FINSMAKARE Installation Instructions Manual

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Environmental aspects

Information on disposal
Your obligations as an end-user
This electrical or electronic equipment is
marked with a crossed-out wheeled bin. The
equipment may therefore only be collected
and returned separately from unsorted
municipal waste, i.e. it must not be disposed
of with household waste. The equipment can
be returned, for example, to a municipal
collection point or, if applicable, to a
distributor (see below for their take-back
obligations in Germany). This also applies to
all components, subassemblies and
consumables of the old equipment to be
disposed of.
Before the old equipment may be disposed of
all old batteries and old accumulators that
are not enclosed by the old equipment must
be separated from the old equipment. The
same applies to lamps that can be removed
from the old equipment without destroying
them. The end-user is also responsible for
deleting personal data from the old
equipment.
Notes on recycling
Help recycle all materials marked with this
symbol. Do not dispose of such materials,
especially packaging, in the household waste
but via the relevant containers provided or
the appropriate local collection systems.
Help to protect the environment and human
health by recycling including waste of
electrical and electronic appliances.
The following additional information applies
in Germany.
Take-back obligations of distributors
Anyone who sells electrical and electronic
equipment on a sales floor area of at least
400 m² or otherwise supplies it to end users
on a commercial basis is obliged, when
supplying a new equipment, to take back at
the place of supply or in the immediate
vicinity thereof free of charge an old
equipment belonging to the end user of the
same type of equipment which fulfils
essentially the same functions as the new
equipment. This also applies to distributors of
groceries with a total sales area of at least
800 m² who offer electrical and electronic
equipment several times a calendar year or
on a permanent basis and make it available
on the market. In addition, such distributors
must, at the request of the end-user, take
back in the retail shop or in the immediate
vicinity free of charge old equipment that
does not exceed 25 cm in any external
dimension (small electrical equipment)
thereof; in this case, take-back may not be
linked to the purchase of an electrical or
electronic equipment but may be limited to
three old equipment per type of equipment.
The place of delivery is also the private
household if the new electrical or electronic
equipment is delivered; in this case the
collection of the old equipment is free of
charge for the end user.
The above obligations also apply to
distribution using means of distance
communication if the distributors maintain
storage and dispatch areas for electrical and
electronic equipment or total storage and
dispatch areas for groceries that correspond
to the sales areas mentioned above.
However, the free collection of electrical and
electronic equipment is then restricted to
heat transmitters (e.g. refrigerators), screens,
monitors and equipment containing screens
with a surface area of more than 100 cm² and
equipment where at least one of the external
dimensions is more than 50 cm. For all other
electrical and electronic equipment the
distributor must ensure appropriate return
facilities within a reasonable distance from
the respective end-user; this also applies to
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