For a broken hair dryer in the bin in Germany, you can run into an administrative fine. Not to mention the huge fridge, an abandoned landfill. However, all this stuff can be taken back to the store. Recently, the authorities ordered sellers to take the population of old appliances. Talking about this initiative took place since 2015, but formally the law came into force on 25 July. According to him, large supermarkets household appliances, retail stores and even online trading points should take recycling end-of-life equipment. All this can be issued free of charge and without presenting the check. In fact, you can hand over any device – even if you buy them somewhere else. Dispose of small electrical appliances in a conventional garbage container is prohibited by law from 2006. According to the rules they need to take in the special recycling centers. But this, of course, only by formal rules. Often they found themselves in a conventional container. Actually, so the federal government level and we decided to pass a law that would motivate users and technicians dispose of it according to the rules, and manufacturers – efficient use of the waste equipment.
Trash or danger?
One of the main reasons for the adoption of the document – protection of the environment. The fact is that if the device is not disposed of properly, some of the metal parts to be oxidized, causing environmental damage. In addition, household appliances and electric appliances contain harmful substances. For example, in the batteries of cameras and laptops that contain heavy metals. The uninterruptible power supply units – lead, one gram of which can contaminate 10 acres of land. A used Freon refrigerant, which destroys the ozone layer in old refrigerators. In an amicable way, in the process of recycling the mixture of refrigerant and compressor oil removed from the refrigerator work with a special pump. But if the old appliance simply put near the garbage can, that no one would do it.
The handset against a gold mine
If the first argument is directed only at the conscious buyers, the second – on the equipment manufacturers. After processing some electronics parts could significantly reduce their zatraty.Naprimer, mobile phones, tablets and desktop computers contain elements suitable for reuse. This copper and precious metals – gold and silver that perfectly conductive. Although they each devayse contains not so much, but this disadvantage is offset by the number of head recyclable tehniki.V particular, according to Robert Doormann Hanover processing company resources and industrial waste, one gram of gold can be obtained, processed about two tons of plutonic rocks in African mines. The same number can be obtained from the five old desktop computers. The savings is obvious.
Dispose can be mailed
Dispose of household appliances residents of Germany helps to organize the European recycling platform (ERP). The company keeps a network of centers across Europe, which may be connected to the manufacturers and sellers. They can be free to send device weighing 31.5 kg and no larger than 120×60 cm To do this, print identification mark -. With a special sticker store, distributor site. Removal of large-size equipment is made by special order, subject to special conditions and, unfortunately, for a fee.
Sellers do not see the point
At the same time sellers themselves household appliances legislative innovation embraced without much enthusiasm. Thus, the chairman of the National Association of distance selling Christoph Wenk-Fischer, in a comment Portal N-tv said that he did not see any sense in this initiative, as it if is beneficial, it is only “in homeopathic doses.” According to him, it would be better if every major city were not only receiving points, but also recycling old techniques. At the same time Europe’s largest store chain Media Saturn still is watching the queue of customers who want to return their electrical appliances. “This law has not brought any significant changes to our work,” – said a company spokeswoman.
Useful initiative or coercion?
Perhaps the thing “zamorochki” with the disposal of large household appliances. The fact that the newly adopted document provides a complimentary reception only small equipment. That is, the dimensions of your devaysa must not exceed 25 centimeters. This may be a smartphone, tablet, fotoapparat- “soap box” or a portable video camera. For large devices the law applies only when the client gets in return is the same device. It’s clear that if you were not planning to buy an extra refrigerator or television, you will not make. In the eyes of the consumer it may look like a hidden advertising campaign. Most likely to get used to the useful environmental initiative, citizens need time.
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