Numerous laws, high administrative burdens, and ongoing costs – as a manufacturer, distributor, or importer of electronics, packaging, and batteries, you face a complex web of challenges and risks.
Staying compliant drains valuable time and focus. Without expert guidance, minor gaps quickly turn into major liabilities. We take the pressure off: As your strategic partner, we seamlessly manage your global obligations and safeguard your market access.
Manufacturers and importers are legally obliged under extended producer responsibility to ensure environmentally friendly disposal of their sold electrical and electronic devices. This includes both the collection, processing, and recycling of old devices.
The Battery Act (BattG) obligates manufacturers and distributors of batteries and accumulators to ensure proper disposal and reprocessing. They are required to take back batteries and promote low-pollution recycling.
The Packaging Act (VerpackG) regulates the responsibility of manufacturers and retailers for the disposal and recycling of the packaging they put into circulation. Recycling rates for packaging materials are intended to be increased through the obligation to participate in a dual return system.
Deutsche Recycling Service GmbH is your partner, offering a wide range of expertise. As an operational service provider with a full-service offering, we simplify, coordinate, and handle global environmental compliance tasks and requirements on your behalf. Rest assured, compliance with all your national and international legal obligations is guaranteed through our services:
We take on the responsibility for you, allowing you to focus more on your core business. As part of our WEEE full-service offering, we assist you with the distribution and disposal of your electrical and electronic devices.
No matter if it’s licensing, take-back, recycling, or disposal – our Packaging Law Consulting ensures that packaging is circulated in a differentiated, cost-effective, and legally compliant manner.
With the amended Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act of 2015 coming into effect, as a distributor or online retailer, you are required to accept old appliances. But what should you do with the electronic waste that arrives at your premises?
Once your products contain batteries or accumulators, all 28 national battery laws within the EU become relevant solely to you. We consistently monitor all obligations on your behalf.
The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is an environmental directive that holds the manufacturer of a product responsible and liable for its entire lifecycle. Who does it apply to, and how can it be adequately fulfilled?
If you’re a manufacturer of a product falling under EPR requirements, you must apply for and publish an EPR registration number for each online shop. With us, you’ll receive your EPR registration number quickly and securely.
Online trade is booming! What is particularly important right now is that anyone who trades in products is subject to binding disposal and recycling obligations, the non-fulfilment of which can lead to considerable sanctions and warnings.
The problem is that many traders are not aware of their obligations. But only those who act in a legally secure manner are safe from unplanned costs and fines.
We at SUSHI Bikes want to make e-bikes accessible to a broad target group as a sustainable mobility solution and offer correspondingly affordable pedelecs for urban areas. As a marketer of batteries, bicycles and packaging, we use the service of Deutsche Recycling. In this way we can ensure that we contribute to professional recycling and live sustainability to the full. It’s good to know that the issue is in the hands of experts who give us tailor-made recommendations and have everything under control.
TIER Mobility is a vision and mission-driven company for shared micro-mobility based in Berlin. Our vision is to lead the way towards seamless and sustainable mobility. We rethink urban transportation and reshape our cities’ landscapes by offering easily-accessible, affordable and sustainable mobility services. We have partnered with Deutsche Recycling to support us in the legal registration of packaging, electronics and batteries in accordance with local legislation. Thanks to the network of Deutsche Recycling, we can also ensure that irreparable electrical parts and batteries are recycled both professionally and responsibly www.tier.app
The Orifarm Group is one of the leading international pharmaceutical importers in Europe. Our own corporate values – determination, flexibility, responsibility and maximum customer benefit – are reflected in the customer service and service quality of Deutsche Recycling.
As an exporter, the Swiss company Suter Inox AG has been looking for a competent and reliable partner who can implement the manufacturer’s obligations abroad. We commissioned Deutsche Recycling on the basis of its experience and services and are very satisfied with our decision. The quantity reports are our only effort, but after only a short time a reliable routine has developed for this as well. We can act without risks and concentrate on marketing our products.
As a global player, RZB lighting is represented in all major export markets. Deutsche Recycling fully implements the different and changing manufacturer laws for us, so that we can concentrate on our core business again. We greatly appreciate this professional support in the regulatory area.
Thorens is known as one of the world’s leading brands in the analog hifi segment, especially for its high-quality turntables. As the oldest entertainment electronics company in the world, we have stood for tradition and high-quality technology for more than 135 years. To ensure the legal disposal of our electrical appliances, packaging and batteries, we rely on the trusting cooperation with Deutsche Recycling as a competent service provider for all environmental obligations. The full service convinced us above all!
Mares S.p.A., as a manufacturer of professional diving equipment, has been looking for a competent and reliable partner who can implement the manufacturer’s obligations in Germany. We are very satisfied with the service of Deutsche Recycling.
Thomann is supported by Deutsche Recycling Service GmbH in the Europe-wide implementation of international environmental requirements in the areas of packaging, electrical appliances and batteries. Deutsche Recycling reliably handles the often complex and highly dynamic requirements of the individual countries and convinces with high flexibility and service quality.
In order to comply with country-specific regulations and reporting mechanisms, know-how and professionalism are required. We at MAUL have found both at Deutsche Recycling and can recommend the company out of conviction.
Navigating the shifting landscape of EU product compliance is no longer just the manufacturer’s responsibility – it now impacts the entire supply chain. From the strict mandates of the GPSR and packaging laws to the upcoming Digital Product Passport, staying compliant is critical to avoiding steep fines and sales bans.
The new EU Battery Regulation has been binding since August 18, 2025, introducing far-reaching changes for manufacturers, distributors, and waste management operators.
The EU Right to Repair is actively shifting legal liability onto international supply chains. Under the “importer cascade” rule, the strict mandate for 10-year spare parts availability automatically falls on European distributors if the manufacturer is based outside the EU.
The EU Waste Framework Directive obligates manufacturers to assume Extended Producer Responsibility. With the 2025 amendment (new for textiles and food), this obligation for companies is shifting decisively forward—directly into product and packaging design.
