Battery law

Information on battery disposal

The following information is intended for those who use batteries or products with built-in batteries and no longer resell them in the form in which they were delivered to them (end users):

1. free take-back of spent batteries

Batteries must not be disposed of with household waste. You are legally obliged to return used batteries so that proper disposal can be ensured. You can return used batteries to a municipal collection point or on site.

As a distributor of batteries, we are obliged to take back used batteries, whereby our take-back obligation is limited to used batteries of the type that we carry or have carried in our range as new batteries. You can therefore either return used batteries of the aforementioned type to us with sufficient postage or hand them in directly to our dispatch warehouse at the following address free of charge:

Multiplex Modellsport GmbH & Co KG
Westliche Gewerbestr. 1
D-75015 Bretten-Gölshausen

2. Meaning of the battery symbols

The symbols shown on the batteries have the following meaning:

    The symbol of the crossed-out dustbin means that the battery must not be disposed of in household waste.
    Pb = Battery contains more than 0.004% lead by mass.
    Cd = battery contains more than 0.002 mass percent cadmium
    Hg = Battery contains more than 0.0005% mercury by mass.

Please note the above information.