Federal Act
on the Protection of the Environment
(Environmental Protection Act, EPA)

¹ The can­tons en­sure that the cost of dis­pos­ing of mu­ni­cip­al waste, in­so­far as it is their re­spons­ib­il­ity, is passed on to those re­spons­ible for pro­du­cing the waste through fees or oth­er charges. In or­gan­ising the charges, the fol­low­ing factors in par­tic­u­lar are taken in­to ac­count:

a.

the nature and the quant­ity of the waste handed over;

b.

the costs of the con­struc­tion, op­er­a­tion and main­ten­ance of the waste dis­pos­al fa­cil­it­ies;

c.

the de­pre­ci­ation re­quired to pre­serve the value of such in­stall­a­tions;

d.

the in­terest;

e.

the planned in­vest­ment re­quire­ments for main­ten­ance, im­prove­ments and re­place­ments, for ad­apt­a­tion to stat­utory re­quire­ments and op­er­a­tion­al op­tim­isa­tion.

² If im­pos­ing cost-cov­er­ing charges on those re­spons­ible for the waste jeop­ard­ises the en­vir­on­ment­ally sus­tain­able dis­pos­al of mu­ni­cip­al waste, dis­pos­al may be fin­anced dif­fer­ently to the ex­tent re­quired.

³ The op­er­at­ors of the waste dis­pos­al fa­cil­it­ies must form the re­quired fin­an­cial re­serves.

⁴ The prin­ciples for the cal­cu­la­tion of the charges must be made avail­able to the pub­lic.