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

This Or­din­ance aims to:

a.

pro­tect people, an­im­als, plants and their bio­lo­gic­al com­munit­ies, wa­ters, the soil and the air from harm­ful ef­fects or nuis­ances caused by waste;

b.

to lim­it en­vir­on­ment­al pol­lu­tion by waste through pre­cau­tion­ary meas­ures;

c.

to en­cour­age the sus­tain­able use of nat­ur­al raw ma­ter­i­als through the en­vir­on­ment­ally sus­tain­able re­cov­ery of waste.