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Due to the failure to list these materials in the Commercial Waste Ordinance,
however, the limited existing potential for the recovery of insulating materials during
demolition is not being exhausted. Wood, in turn, does not come under the regime of
the Commercial Waste Ordinance, but is covered by the Waste Wood Ordinance
(AltholzV); this divides wood waste from the building sector into several waste wood
categories (see Annex III of the Waste Wood Ordinance). 847 The requirements placed
on treatment prior to reuse then depend on the category.
The LAGA implementation notes put into concrete terms the principal regulations
contained in the Commercial Waste Ordinance. 848 In parts they contain information
which could not be included in the Ordinance for fear of bloating the text or because it
represents background information only.
The structure employed by the ordinance follows two routes:
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1. the system of principles applying to commercial municipal waste is also
adopted for the explicitly emphasised building and demolition waste listed
using a separate system; and
2. the building and demolition waste, in turn, is differentiated into discrete and
mixed waste fractions
� new-build (in particular structural engineering);
� refurbishment, modernisation and renovation; and
� demolition, where individual components or building materials are
removed separately (selective demolition).
In the case of demolition, the LAGA points out that selective demolition may be
obligatory depending on the Federal state involved. However, regulations involving
Federal state laws have not yet been identified.
Beside this, the implementation notes also address mixed waste and briefly describe
the situation surrounding the origin and types of accumulating waste mixtures in
order to clarify fields of action for the executive agency. This shows that mixed
building and demolition waste primarily occurs where no selective demolition is
practiced. In most cases, these types of waste consist of mineral building waste
fractions and, in addition, bitumen mixtures, insulating materials or gypsum-based
building materials.
It is felt that the current framework in place for dealing with C&D waste is insufficient.
Not least because of numerous problematic substances (e.g. asbestos, heavy metals)
and incompatible substances (e.g. gypsum in concrete recycling, insulation materials
manufactured from fibres, etc.) contained in the building material stock, which in
practice make successful high-quality recycling more difficult or even hinder it
completely, it is felt that a means of optimal material segregation by selective
demolition should be sought.
847 Ordinance of 15.08.02, Federal Law Gazette, pp.3302.
848 Implementation notes of the Working Group of the Federal States on Waste (LAGA) to the
Commercial Waste Ordinance, passed on 26.03.03.
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