How should I correctly dispose of magnets?
According to information provided by the waste management department of the city of Zurich, you may include small amounts of disused neodymium and ferrite magnets with your regular domestic rubbish collection.
Take larger quantities to a scrap metal recycling centre.
To be sure, confirm with your local municipality how the disposal is regulated.
You also have the option to send magnets purchased from supermagnete.ch back to us.
If you want to do a good deed for the environment and help preserve the so-called rare earth metals (neodymium, dysprosium) contained in these magnets, you can return the magnets purchased from us.
Please send the magnets in a protected package
with sufficient postage to the following address:
Murghof Werkstätten
Magnet-Recycling
Balierestrasse 17
8500 Frauenfeld
Magnet-Recycling
Balierestrasse 17
8500 Frauenfeld
Magnet take-back programme Magcycle
At supermagnete, we utilise the magnet boxes of the Magcycle magnet take-back programme offered by the German company Rocklink GmbH.
We use them to store magnet scrap collected from product returns and then send the full boxes back to Rocklink GmbH.
The company is committed to recycling magnets properly with the help of this magnet take-back programme.
The rare earth elements are recovered through sophisticated recycling processes and reused to produce new permanent magnets.
Correct disposal of ferrofluid
Our popular ferrofluid
can be discarded in the same way as engine oil.
Small amounts you may have used for your experiments can be soaked up with paper towels and disposed of in the household rubbish.
For other interesting information about the product, please visit our FAQ page on ferrofluid.