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

¹ Phos­phor­us must be re­covered from mu­ni­cip­al waste wa­ter, from sewage sludge from cent­ral waste wa­ter treat­ment plants or from the ash pro­duced by the in­cin­er­a­tion of such sewage sludge and then re­cycled.

² Phos­phor­us in an­im­al and bone meal must be re­cycled, un­less the an­im­al and bone meal is used as an­im­al feed­stuffs.

³ When re­cov­er­ing phos­phor­ous from waste in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 or 2, the pol­lut­ants in the waste must be re­moved ac­cord­ing to the state of the art. If the phos­phor­ous re­covered is used to man­u­fac­ture a fer­til­iser, the re­quire­ments of An­nex 2.6 Num­ber 2.2.2.2 OR­RChem must also be met.¹⁷