You can dispose of your old electrical appliances in Hamburg in the following ways:

Waste disposal at Hamburg's municipal cleaning service:

• You can drop off almost all types of electrical appliances at the recycling center.
• You can dispose of small devices without batteries and accumulators in special disposal containers.
• You can drop off small appliances at the mobile hazardous waste collection point.

• Small, old electrical appliances with an edge length of up to 25 cm from private households can be returned free of charge to electrical retailers. This applies to stores with a sales area of 400 square meters or more.
• When you buy a new, larger electrical or electronic appliance, the retailer is obliged to take back an old appliance free of charge.

• Small, used electrical appliances with an edge length of up to 25 cm from private households can be disposed of free of charge at supermarkets, discount stores, and drugstores. This applies to stores with a total sales area of at least 800 square meters that offer electrical appliances for sale several times a year or on a permanent basis. Regular sales of lamps are sufficient to qualify.
• You can return a maximum of three devices per return.
• If you wish to return a larger electrical or electronic device, it can only be returned free of charge if you purchase a comparable new product.

• You can have your old electrical appliances collected and disposed of free of charge via online retailers if you have purchased a new electrical appliance online.
• Online retailers must actively offer this service. Old electrical appliances are sorted into categories.
  • Category 1: Heat exchangers such as refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners
  • Category 2: Screens such as televisions, laptops and tablets
  • Category 3: Lamps such as energy-saving lamps, LED lamps, fluorescent tubes (not incandescent bulbs, these are not covered by the law on the placing on the market, the take-back and the environmentally sound disposal of electrical and electronic equipment (ElektroG))
  • Category 4: Large appliances with an edge length of more than 50 cm, such as washing machines, dishwashers and power tools
  • Category 5: small electrical and electronic appliances with an edge length of up to 50 cm, such as toasters, hair dryers, coffee machines, and toy electronics.
  • Category 6: small IT/telecommunications devices with an edge length of up to 50 cm, such as smartphones, tablets, routers, smartwatches

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