The tourist towns of Dauis and Panglao have stopped using the Dampas dump site in this city in their garbage disposal system on orders of City Mayor Dan Neri Lim.
The order came for Panglao to stop using the garbage dump was issued the other week while Dauis ceased to use the same dump site only last week.
The closure of the Dampas open garbage dump to the two towns is the best argument why a cluster of 11 municipalities decided to throw their garbage in one controlled environment.
This actually is the idea behind the Alburquerque Landfill Project which will host as the dumping area of ten municipalities, an undertaking funded by the Philippine Tourism Authority.
Although as tourist towns they are prohibited by law to set up their own garbage facility, the two local government units were forced to dump their trash in temporary "transfer stations."
For so long, the two towns were allowed to throw their garbage at the Dampas open dump site until Mayor Lim issued the stop order.
With the Dampas site now closed to the two towns, it was gathered that Panglao has developed a temporary landfill facility in barangay Libaong. Dauis is said to have chosen a site in barangay Mariveles for its own dump site.
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