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

¹ Waste in­ten­ded for de­pos­it in a land­fill must be treated so that it con­tains as little or­gan­ic bound car­bon as pos­sible and is as in­sol­uble as pos­sible in wa­ter.

² Waste must not be burned oth­er than in in­cin­er­a­tion plants; the fore­go­ing does not ap­ply to the burn­ing of nat­ur­al forest, field and garden waste provided that this causes no ex­cess­ive am­bi­ent pol­lu­tion levels.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may is­sue fur­ther reg­u­la­tions on treat­ment for spe­cif­ic types of waste.