ELEKTROWIN a.s. is a non-profit organisation founded for purposes other than business, namely the purposes of operating and managing a collective system, ensuring the common fulfilment of the obligations stipulated by the amendment of the law for manufacturers, in terms of return, separate collection, processing, use and removal of electronic equipment and electronic waste.
At the end of 2022, Elektrowin was authorised from the Ministry of the Environment to operate a collective system under the End-of-Life Products Act No. 542/2020 Coll. for all groups of electrical equipment as well as for operators of photovoltaic power plants.
Collection network
Take-back points and special containers are founded all over the Czech Republic, supplemented by mobile collection services and, for example, collection events organised by volunteer firefighters. ELEKTROWIN has now created more than collection points,
The collection network consists of around 2,500 public collection points where people have the opportunity to hand in used electrical and electronic appliances – they have this opportunity at contracted collection points in municipalities and at registered end retailers and service points. Moreover, there are more than 9,400 nonpublic collection points created at schools, volunteer firefighters, schools, etc.
ELEKTROWIN has, since 2005, when it was founded by a group of producers of electrical and electronic appliances to help them comply with the new obligations imposed on them by law, ensured the recycling of 36 million appliances of a total weight of 661,000 tons.