Key legal question
Whether Arosa’s fee system for municipal solid-waste financing violated federal waste-law requirements.
Extracted holding
Yes. A fee based on freshwater consumption lacked a sufficiently close link to the amount of waste and was incompatible with Art. 32a USG.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that waste financing must be cost-covering and causation-based; water consumption may work for wastewater charges but not as the decisive criterion for waste fees.