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

¹ Each year, the can­tons shall draw up pub­licly ac­cess­ible lists with the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion and sub­mit the same to the FOEN:

a.

quant­it­ies of cat­egor­ies of waste¹¹ men­tioned in An­nex 1 that are dis­posed of on their ter­rit­ory;

b.¹²

fa­cil­it­ies for treat­ing con­struc­tion waste and fa­cil­it­ies for treat­ing metal­lic waste on their ter­rit­ory in which more than 1000 t waste is treated each year;

c.

oth­er waste dis­pos­al fa­cil­it­ies on their ter­rit­ory in which more than 100 t waste is dis­posed of each year.

² The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions may the re­vise the cat­egor­ies of waste spe­cified in An­nex 1 to take ac­count of tech­nic­al de­vel­op­ments.

³ The can­tons shall sub­mit a re­port to the FOEN on re­quest on the op­er­a­tion and con­di­tion of the land­fills on their ter­rit­ory.¹³ The re­port shall con­tain the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the quant­ity and type of the de­pos­ited waste as well as re­main­ing quant­it­ies of ex­ist­ing land­fills;

b.

in the case of new land­fills and al­ter­a­tions to ex­ist­ing land­fill sites: evid­ence that the fa­cil­it­ies on the site sat­is­fy the re­quire­ments of An­nex 2 num­bers 2.1–2.4;

c.

where ap­plic­able, any meas­ures taken un­der Art­icle 53 para­graph 4 to pre­vent pos­sible harm­ful ef­fects or nuis­ances be­ing caused to the en­vir­on­ment by land­fills.