Disposal & Recycling

At Stanley Black & Decker, our commitment to environmental and sustainability excellence throughout our product life cycle remains core to the way we operate, especially relating to climate, waste and water.

Throughout our product life cycle – from product design to product use and end-of-life management – everyone in the supply chain must play their part. Please check the provisions of your local community/municipality for end-of-life waste management requirements and help to ensure that recyclable materials are reused or recycled by placing them into the appropriate recycling stream.

If, for example, tubes, bottles, cartridges have been filled with hazardous or toxic substances (oil, grease, other chemicals) or have come into contact with them, these materials must be disposed of separately. Please find out about the corresponding special waste disposal regulations of your local municipality/city administration.

Even materials from our products and components such as batteries contain important raw materials and should also be managed correctly at end-of-life. These can be taken to an official waste collection center or a participating retailer. Operating and safety instructions should only be disposed when the product to which they relate is no longer in use.

The following is an overview of the possibly used materials at Stanley Black & Decker, including corresponding material code and their application areas. The material code can be found e.g. for packaging either directly marked on the packaging component, described on the outer packaging or explained below. Especially at packaging’s please always try to separate different materials identified by a different material code and reduce the volume as much as possible.

Stanley Black & Decker’s commitment to environmental and sustainability excellence includes informing our customers to the best of our ability about the raw materials used in our products and their packaging; and providing as much guidance as we can to help you to recycle our products and packaging as effectively as possible, to protect the future of our planet and our children.

Wherever reasonably possible we are making the raw material codes available on every component you receive when you buy an Stanley Black & Decker product. Those codes, and the basic collection routes that they should follow are explained below. This information will help you to follow your local recycling guidelines and dispose of these various parts in the most appropriate way. User manuals contain additional details on the best way to recycle complete tools that have reached the end of their useful life.

Unfortunately, it is not always possible for us to mark components in a way that is both easy to read and which does not involve increasing the amount of waste generated. In cases like this we have provided additional detail on this website to allow you to follow your local recycling guidelines for waste disposal for these unmarked parts.

The symbol shown with the material code serves as an example of its appearance. Other representations, such as arrows surrounding a triangle or non-rounded edges, are also possible.