Ordinance
on the Avoidance and the Disposal of Waste
(Waste Ordinance, ADWO)

¹ The re­quire­ments spe­cified in An­nex 2 ap­ply to the loc­a­tion and the struc­ture of land­fills.

² Type E land­fills may not be con­struc­ted un­der­ground. Oth­er land­fills may be con­struc­ted un­der­ground with the FOEN’s con­sent provided:

a.

the waste is de­pos­ited in a stable cav­ity un­til the end of the after-care phase;

b.

it is demon­strated that the land­fills, with the ex­cep­tion of Type A land­fills, can­not harm the en­vir­on­ment un­til the end of the after-care phase;

c.

in the case of Type D land­fills, only slag is de­pos­ited that ori­gin­ates from fa­cil­it­ies in which mu­ni­cip­al waste or waste of sim­il­ar com­pos­i­tion is in­cin­er­ated and ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures are taken to pre­vent the build-up of gases.

³ In cases where it is per­mit­ted un­der the wa­ters pro­tec­tion le­gis­la­tion to di­vert a body of flow­ing wa­ter for the con­struc­tion of a land­fill:

a.

the bod­ies of wa­ter must be di­ver­ted around the land­fill;

b.

it must be en­sured that no wa­ter can in­trude in­to the land­fill.