Where can I return my old appliance?

When an old electrical device reaches the end of its life cycle, you should not leave it to collect dust in a corner. The waste electrical and electronic equipment does not belong to the mixed waste, but they must be delivered to an official WEEE collection point from where they are forwarded to recycling.

An old electrical or electronic appliance must always be returned to collection as whole device, not disassembled, as follows:

• without product packages, manuals or other medium (such as manuals on DVD or CD)
• vacuum cleaners without dust bags
• microwave ovens or coffee makers, without glass pans, glass plates or glass domes
• refrigeration appliances, without food

Notice! Loose accumulators or batteries are not included in WEEE recycling.

Return to WEEE collection point

The consumer may return the waste electrical and electronic equipment to the national WEEE collection point network. The return can be done free of charge. The closest collection point can be found at www.kierratys.info.

Return to a store selling electrical and electronic equipment

Some stores selling electrical and electronic equipment accept waste electrical and electronic appliances of households. At the store’s reception, the devices are divided into two groups, according to their size.

1. WEEE with none of the external dimensions exceeding 25 cm

The consumer may return a waste electrical and electronic equipment, with none of the external dimensions exceeding 25 cm, to stores of the following type, without any obligation to buy a new product:

• Grocery stores selling EE appliances, with the area of at least 1000 m2*
• Special stores selling EE appliances, with the area of at least 200 m2*

The size of the store refers to the sales area used permanently in business activities.

2. WEEE with any of the external dimensions exceeding 25 cm

The consumer can return the waste electrical and electronic equipment, with any of the external dimensions exceeding 25 cm, to the store when purchasing a new similar device from that particular store. 

The old appliance or lamp must always be returned without the packaging! Printer ink tanks, vacuum cleaner dust bags and coffee maker pans do not belong to the WEEE collection container.

* A grocery store = a store that sells mainly groceries.

* A special store = a store that sells special items (consumer durables); such as stores selling technical household appliances, furniture stores, hardware stores.