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

In this Or­din­ance:

a.³

mu­ni­cip­al waste means:

1.

waste from house­holds,

2.

waste from busi­nesses with few­er than 250 full-time em­ploy­ees the com­pos­i­tion of which in in­gredi­ents and pro­por­tions is sim­il­ar to waste from house­holds,

3.

waste from pub­lic au­thor­it­ies the com­pos­i­tion of which in in­gredi­ents and pro­por­tions is sim­il­ar to waste from house­holds;

b.

un­der­tak­ing means a leg­al en­tity with its own iden­ti­fic­a­tion num­ber or such en­tit­ies com­bined in a group with a jointly or­gan­ised waste dis­pos­al sys­tem;

c.

spe­cial waste means waste des­ig­nated as spe­cial waste in the list of wastes is­sued in Art­icle 2 of the Or­din­ance of 22 June 2005⁴ on Move­ments of Waste (OMW);

d.

bio­gen­ic waste means waste of ve­get­able, an­im­al or mi­cro­bi­al ori­gin;

e.

con­struc­tion waste means waste pro­duced in the con­struc­tion, con­ver­sion or dis­mant­ling of fixed in­stall­a­tions;

f.

ex­cav­ated ma­ter­i­almeans ma­ter­i­al that is ex­cav­ated or ex­trac­ted in the course of con­struc­tion work, with the ex­cep­tion of any top­soil and sub­soil re­moved;

f^bis.⁵

mer­cury waste:

1.

waste that con­tains mer­cury or mer­cury com­pounds,

2.

mer­cury or mer­cury com­pounds ori­gin­at­ing from the treat­ment of mer­cury waste in terms of num­ber 1; the fore­go­ing does not ap­ply to mer­cury that has been au­thor­ised for ex­port un­der An­nex 1.7 Num­bers 2.2.4 or 4.2 of the Chem­ic­al Risk Re­duc­tion Or­din­ance of 18 May 2005⁶ (OR­RChem),

3.

mer­cury or mer­cury com­pounds that is or are no longer re­quired in in­dus­tri­al pro­cesses;

g.

waste dis­pos­al fa­cil­ity means an in­stall­a­tion in which waste is treated, re­covered, de­pos­ited or tem­por­ar­ily stored, with the ex­cep­tion of ma­ter­i­al ex­trac­tion sites in which ex­cav­ated ma­ter­i­al is re­covered;

h.⁷

...

i.

com­post­ing fa­cil­itymeans a waste dis­pos­al fa­cil­ity in which bio­gen­ic waste de­com­poses while ex­posed to the air;

j.⁸

fer­ment­a­tion fa­cil­itymeans a waste dis­pos­al fa­cil­ity in which bio­gen­ic waste is al­lowed to fer­ment in the ab­sence of air;

k.

land­fill means a waste dis­pos­al fa­cil­ity in which waste is de­pos­ited;

l.

in­cin­er­a­tion means the treat­ment of waste at a tem­per­at­ure that is suf­fi­ciently high that sub­stances haz­ard­ous to the en­vir­on­ment are des­troyed or phys­ic­ally or chem­ic­ally bon­ded by min­er­al­isa­tion;

m.

state of the art means the latest stage of de­vel­op­ment of pro­ced­ures, in­stall­a­tions and op­er­at­ing meth­ods which:

1.

have been suc­cess­fully tested in com­par­able fa­cil­it­ies or activ­it­ies in Switzer­land or abroad or have been used suc­cess­fully in tri­als and may be used in oth­er fa­cil­it­ies or activ­it­ies in ac­cord­ance with the rules of the tech­no­logy, and

2.

is eco­nom­ic­ally vi­able in a me­di­um-sized and eco­nom­ic­ally sound en­ter­prise in the rel­ev­ant in­dustry.