DELAY SHIP BACK OF GARBAGE
The garbage has been sitting in the Philippines for about six years. In 2013 and 2017, a private Canadian firm exported 103 shipping containers of garbage to the Philippines. Only 69 shipping containers are quarantined in two ports in Manila and Subic Freeport north of Manila. Thirty-four of the containers were already disposed of.
Even the shipment was marked as recyclable scrap, the Philippine Bureau of Customs found the containers were consisting of household trash, plastic bottles and bags, newspapers, and used adult diapers.
From March 2017, the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines (DFA) has been appealing to the Canadian embassy in the Philippines to ship the garbage back to Canada.
After three months, then Canadian ambassador Neil Reeder responded to DFA that his government "has no domestic or international authority to compel the shipper to return the shipment to Canada." However, he said Ottawa "would like to explore with the Philippines options for processing the rest of the shipment - in accordance with Philippine law - in the Philippines."
Philippine environmental protection groups slammed Canada for its inaction. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, during his first visit to the Philippines to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November 2017, assured the Philippine government that Canada was trying to come up with a solution to the issue but made no promise that the North American country can bring the trash back.
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