take-e-way News and Press Releases

On 18 October 2021, from 11:00h to 12:00h (CET), Magdalena Barylska, consultant at take-e-way GmbH, will be available for one hour to answer your questions on the subject “Amendment to the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG)”. On this occasion you will have the opportunity to discuss your problems and unrevolved questions together with other traders and manufacturers concerned. Registration is not required. Simply participate at the said time via the following link.

This tax will impose a flat fee of £200 per ton on primary, secondary or transit packaging containing less than 30% recycled content.

Companies that distribute across borders to end-users are at the same time in the position of battery producers with corresponding obligations. Physical stores must collect all types of waste portable batteries if portable batteries are distributed from that shop.

As we have learned, a take-back system based there is also actively sounding out the market. The aim of this action is to ensure fairer competition and at the same time to draw more attention to the legal obligations.

Solar roof tiles are covered by the WEEE Directive throughout the EU. Depending on their dimensions, they are classified as large or small electrical appliances (the edge length is the decisive factor).

According to the gfu, sales of turntables were up by eight per cent in the first half of 2021, to just under 63,000 units. Record players belong to the appliance type “small electrical appliances up to max. 50cm” or “large electrical appliances with dimensions over 50cm”.