Recycling and Environmental Info

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Product disposal
Contents of this chapter
This chapter contains product disposal instructions.
You can dismantle the drive manually or in a shredding machine. The chapter is divided in
two sections on basis of the dismantling method.
Manual dismantling
Sort the parts of the product are according to their material contents as follows:
• ferrous metals (plates, screws)
• aluminum (heatsink)
• plastics
• printed circuit boards
• electrolytic capacitors
• other.
You can recycle metal parts (iron and aluminum) and most materials according to local
regulations.
For information on harmful materials, see subsection List of potentially harmful materials
on page 22.