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By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

A waste management crisis is impending as the city's open garbage dump in barangay Dampas is feared of being closed down.

This, as some 94-percent of the host barangay's residents have called for the closure of the open dumpsite through a signature campaign that was launched during a barangay assembly last March 29.

Dampas barangay captain Fredison Ingles admitted to the Chronicle that the call for the dumpsite closure cropped-up during the barangay assembly while residents continuously complain of flies, stink and smog emanating from the garbage disposal site.

Meanwhile, Dampas barangay kagawad Aida Parafon, in a separate interview with the Chronicle yesterday, said officials of the barangay are finding ways to avert the looming garbage crisis as some of their constituents have indicated filing a petition questioning the operation of the open dump despite a closure deadline set under RA 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.

Parafon, who had been consulting the regional office of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) last week, disclosed that a complete closure of the dumpsite can be avoided if all 15 barangays in the city would establish their own materials recovery facility (MRF) and composting sites.

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