Homepage Consumers Why Taking Back and Recycling?

Why Taking Back and Recycling?

  • The take-back is fee of charge, the associated costs are met from recycling fees.
  • If you get rid of any electrical equipment by putting it into communal waste container (dustbin), it cannot be sorted out and will end up in a landfill, with the associated costs being met from the municipal budget.
  • Electrical equipment may contain dangerous substances (e.g. freons, cadmium or lead) that may affect people’s environment and health
  • Electrical equipment contains materials that can be recovered and used again (some appliances have the recovery ratio as high as 90%) so that natural resources can be saved.

Do you know?

Do you know that the collection network built up by ELEKTROWIN covers 92% of the inhabitants of the Czech Republic and consists of 7,500 take-back points?