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

¹ The can­tons shall each draw up a waste man­age­ment plan for their ter­rit­ory. It shall in­clude in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

meas­ures to avoid waste;

b.

meas­ures to re­cov­er waste;

c.

the num­ber of fa­cil­it­ies re­quired to dis­pose of mu­ni­cip­al waste and oth­er types of waste that the can­tons are re­spons­ible for dis­pos­ing of;

d.

the land­fill volume re­quired and the loc­a­tions of land­fills (land­fill plan);

e.

the re­quired catch­ment areas;

f.⁹

the meas­ures to use the en­ergy con­tent of the waste gen­er­ated by its in­cin­er­a­tion.

² The can­tons shall work to­geth­er on their waste man­age­ment plans, in par­tic­u­lar on the mat­ters men­tioned in para­graph 1 let­ters c–f and shall if ne­ces­sary des­ig­nate in­ter­can­t­on­al plan­ning re­gions for this pur­pose.¹⁰

³ They shall re­view their waste man­age­ment plans every five years and amend them if ne­ces­sary.

⁴ The can­tons shall sub­mit their waste man­age­ment plans and the sig­ni­fic­ant re­vi­sions there­of to the Fed­er­al Of­fice for the En­vir­on­ment (FOEN).