Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG)
The "Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG)" governs the sale, return and environmentally sound disposal of electrical and electronic equipment. The law is supposed to extend the responsibility of manufacturers for the electrical equipment they sell to cover the entire lifecycle of their equipment. It transposes the European WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC into national law. The aims of the Act are to: - protect health and the environment against harmful substances from electrical and electronic equipment, and - reduce the amount of waste through recovery or recycling
The ElektroG incentivizes that electrical and electronic equipment is designed to be less polluting and that WEEE is avoided as much as possible, or reduced by reuse and recycling thus protecting the environment and health of human-beings and conserving natural resources
