Consumers
Consumers, both private persons and businesses, contribute with their purchasing power and environmental awareness to making sure that the rules on management of electrical equipment, batteries, and vehicles are complied with and the quantities of end-of-life batteries and accumulators are minimised. As a consumer you can primarily make sure always to use the established collection services.
Private consumers and commercial businesses
As a consumer you can check whether a producer/importer has assumed the statutory producer responsibility for a given electrical product or a battery. First, you can look for the statutory marking with the crossed-out wheeled bin, and then you can search for brand or company name in the national producer register with DPA by clicking the yellow button at the top of the page.
How can consumers reduce quantities of end-of-life electronics, batteries and accumulators?
Consumers can contribute to reducing quantities of end-of-life electronics, batteries, and accumulators in the following ways:
- by buying fewer products
- by buying products with a longer useful life, i.e. products that can be upgraded and repaired
- by replacing functional equipment less frequently
In addition, consumers can choose environment-friendly products, for instance products without the environmentally harmful brominated flame retardants.
How should consumers discard end-of-life products and batteries?
On their website the Danish Environmental Protection Agency mentions different options for private consumers wishing to discard electrical equipment. The following options exist:
- Delivery to municipal service, such as recycling centre
- Delivery to dealer if he/she is willing to receive it
- Delivery to charity organisation to have the product reused if it still works
- Outlet through the Internet, e.g. at storskrald.dk
On their website the Danish Environmental Protection Agency mentions different options for private consumers wishing to discard batteries. The following options exist:
- Delivery to recycling centre
- Placing a bag on the lid of the waste container – a service offered in some municipalities
- Dropping in a battery recycling bin located in various places in your local area
Commercial businesses with large quantities of waste electronics similar to household waste and batteries, which cannot be taken to the municipal recycling centre, can take such waste directly to the collection sites of the collective schemes. Access to these sites must be agreed with the collective scheme.
See outline of collective schemes’ regional reception sites, their location, and contact information
How should consumers discard end-of-life vehicles?
Users, both private persons and businesses, contribute with their handling of end-of-life vehicles to making sure that the purpose of producer responsibility is attained. A so-called car scrapping premium is paid to the last owner of the vehicle.
Shortcuts
See registered producers
See registered producers and importers of electronics, batteries, and vehicles
Marking of equipment (WEEE)
Read more about marking of electrical products
Marking of products (BAT)
Read more about marking of batteries
Danish Environmental Protection Agency’s tips to private consumers discarding end-of-life electronics
See more on the Danish Environmental Protection Agency’s website about management of waste electronics
Danish Environmental Protection Agency’s tips about batteries
See more on the Danish Environmental Protection Agency’s website about disposal of batteries
Car scrapping
See more about car scrapping