Deutsche Recycling is an independent, owner-managed company with an international presence, specializing in WEEE/Electrical and Electronic Equipment, packaging and battery compliance. We advise and support businesses on these requirements in Germany and, above all, across international markets worldwide.
As a full-service compliance partner, we take care of the complex administrative processes on your behalf — including licensing and registration, quantity reporting, and the appointment of authorised representatives for WEEE. We make regulatory compliance straightforward, legally secure and cost-efficient, so you can focus on your core business.
Our history
A lot has happened since Deutsche Recycling was founded in 2014. Learn more about our history:
Foundation by Nils Röpke
First approval of Deutsche Recycling as a collective guarantee system by the national register for waste electric equipment (Stiftung EAR). Deutsche Recycling has received successful subsequent approvals every year from EAR since then.
Deutsche Recycling already serves 100 customers
New customers also enable our company to grow. Due to expansion, the first move to larger premises in Cologne-Mühlheim takes place as early as 2015
Launch of the Garantie-Elektrogesetz platform, THE simple and inexpensive online solution for obtaining the insolvency-proof guarantee required by the German Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act for manufacturers and retailers.
We continue to grow. The next move to Cologne-Marienburg creates more space for additional new employees.
Deutsche Recycling now already serves 1,000 customers
The company continues to grow, with more than 25 employees representing 9 nationalities and speaking 12 languages. Together, they support and serve more than 1,700 customers worldwide.
The company now employs more than 50 people, representing 10 nationalities and speaking 12 languages, who support and serve more than 4,000 customers worldwide.
What makes us different
We …
- Offer you a complete service package relating to licensing for electrical appliances, packaging and batteries
- Work independently of groups, systems, disposal companies and industries
- Implement optimised licensing solutions for you throughout Europe and worldwide
- Create transparency with regard to the regulations that affect you
- Know which country-specific regulations currently apply in each case
- Reduce your risk of not acting in a legally compliant manner
- Offer you maximum cost-effectiveness
- Are independent of national systems and disposal companies
- Offer absolute consulting expertise, solution orientation, decisiveness, speed
- Focus on the customer and offer individual complete solutions
- Operate internationally and are adept at various languages (one face to the customer)
Nils Röpke
CEO