WEEE Compliance
Collection and Recycling Information for Smiths Medical CustomersSmiths Medical sells electrical and electronic equipment to EC Member States. Click on the first letter of the country you are looking for e.g. ‘S’ for Spain or Sweden and collection and recycling arrangements for Smiths Medical products in your country will be displayed.
| GERMANY |
| Collection and Recycling Arrangements in Germany |
| Under the Germany Act Governing the Sale, Return and Environmentally Sound Disposal of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (ElektroG) which came into force on August 13th 2005, the financing of collection and recycling of any waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) arising from equipment bought before March 24th 2006 is the customers responsibility. This is regardless of whether the old equipment is being replaced by a new item of equipment purchased from Smiths Medical. Waste arising from equipment purchased before March 24th 2006 is referred to as Historic WEEE. Under the ElektroG Act, Smiths Medical are required to finance the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of any new electrical and electronic equipment that you buy from the partners and resellers after March 24th 2006, when that new equipment eventually becomes waste. This is referred to as New WEEE. Smiths Medical products are very competitively priced. Any new increase in operating costs for manufacturers such as Smiths Medical is normally reflected in a price increase in the product. However, instead of increasing the prices of our products Smiths Medical has decided to share these new environmental costs directly with our customers. We believe in being transparent with you on any new environmental costs that our products need to address. Our approach to sharing these new environmental costs are:
Smiths Medical has established a recycling contract with the European Advanced Recycling Network (EARN) and will cover any costs of treatment, recycling and recovery of the equipment on arrival at the EARN facility in Germany. All New WEEE that arises from the purchase of Smiths Medical products is classed as non-hazardous waste. It is your responsibility to arrange and pay for costs of collection and transportation to EARN. Under German waste management regulations, you are free to use any carrier you wish to collect and transport non-hazardous WEEE to the EARN recycler. In order to help EARN identify Smiths Medical equipment upon arrival to the recyclers' address, please click on the link below to download the recycling label to be used. Please complete this label with your company details and attach it to a suitable box for transport to EARN.  Recycling label for Customers in Germany |
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| Under Part 2, Section 13 of ElektroG, Smiths Medical must provide annual information of the quantities and categories of electrical and electronic equipment put on the market, reused, recycled and recovered within Germany. The first WEEE recycling report will cover the period March 2006 to February 2007. EARN will prepare the recycling data report for Smiths Medical. Information in the EARN recycling data report will be summarised on the Smiths Medical website when it becomes available.
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