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

¹ The after-care phase for a land­fill or a com­part­ment be­gins after the clos­ure of the land­fill or the com­part­ment and lasts for 50 years. The can­ton­al au­thor­ity shall re­duce the after-care phase provided harm­ful ef­fects or nuis­ances to the en­vir­on­ment are no longer ex­pec­ted. The after-care phase shall however last for at least:

a.

5 years in the case of land­fills or com­part­ments of Types A and B;

b.

15 years in the case of land­fills or com­part­ments of Types C, D and E.

² The pro­pri­et­or of a land­fill or a com­part­ment must en­sure for the en­tire after-care phase that:

a.

the fa­cil­it­ies sat­is­fy the re­quire­ments of An­nex 2 num­ber 2.1–2.4 and are reg­u­larly in­spec­ted and main­tained;

b.

the ground wa­ter, col­lec­ted leachate and the land­fill gases are mon­itored, provided mon­it­or­ing in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 41 and Art­icle 53 para­graph 5 is re­quired.

³ The pro­pri­et­or must en­sure that the sur­face soil fer­til­ity is mon­itored for five years fol­low­ing clos­ure of a land­fill or a com­part­ment.

⁴ The can­ton­al au­thor­ity shall spe­cify the dur­a­tion of the after-care phase and the ob­lig­a­tions of the pro­pri­et­or of the land­fill in ac­cord­ance with the para­graphs 2 and 3 in the fi­nal op­er­at­ing li­cence for the land­fill or com­part­ment fest. It may ex­empt Type A land­fills or com­part­ments from re­quire­ments men­tioned in para­graphs 2 and 3.