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

¹ The can­tons shall en­sure that that the re­cov­er­able parts of mu­ni­cip­al waste such as glass, pa­per, card­board, metals, garden waste and tex­tiles are if pos­sible col­lec­ted sep­ar­ately and re­cycled.

² They shall en­sure that the fol­low­ing are col­lec­ted and dis­posed of sep­ar­ately:

a.

spe­cial waste from house­holds;

b.¹⁵

non-busi­ness-spe­cif­ic spe­cial waste of up to 20 kg per col­lec­tion from busi­nesses and pub­lic au­thor­it­ies with few­er than 10 full-time em­ploy­ment po­s­i­tions.

³ They shall en­sure that the in­fra­struc­ture re­quired to com­ply with para­graphs 1 and 2 is provided, and in par­tic­u­lar that col­lec­tion points are set up. If ne­ces­sary they shall also en­sure that reg­u­lar col­lec­tions are made.

⁴ The pro­pri­et­ors of waste from busi­nesses with 250 or more full-time em­ploy­ment po­s­i­tions must as far as pos­sible and reas­on­able col­lect and re­cycle the re­cov­er­able parts of their waste that are sim­il­ar in their com­pos­i­tion to mu­ni­cip­al waste.