The rules adopted by the Bundestag provide that distributors must take back small electrical appliances such as a hair dryer or a toaster from a sales area of over 400 square meters. A take-back obligation for larger devices, it should only give when customers buy an equivalent new device. The rules should also apply to online trading. To date, some traders take the waste back only voluntary.
The German government hopes that in future less waste land by the law in the domestic waste. In addition to the illegal export of electronic waste to be contained abroad by withdrawing duty environment and scarce resources conserved and.The national director of the German Environmental Aid, Jürgen Resch, criticized the regulations in Germany Kultur. “Today we have the situation that the consumer has to go into business with a tape measure, once has to measure whether there together have the electrical appliances a sales area of over 400 square meters – and then he can think about where his old appliance back to bring, “Resch said. This is not practical.
With the new law, especially a new EU directive is implemented. By 2016, at least 45 percent of the resulting e-waste collected and recycled if possible, by 2019 the ratio is expected to rise to 65 percent.
The Consumer Federation (vzbv) in mid-March already had criticized on the occasion of the cabinet decision that the law does not go far enough. As in many other European countries, should continue every electronics shop are obligated regardless of the size of the sales area in Germany to take back waste, called for consumer protection.
Before the law in 2016 to enter into force, it must be after summer break the Bundesrat happen.
It is estimated that fall annually in Germany to around 23 kg of electronic waste per capita. According to the Federal Environmental Agency almost 780,000 tonnes of WEEE were collected in 2010, of which 723,000 tons from private households.
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