“Canada, Pick
up your garbage. Philippine’s is a garbage bin.”
This was the recent call of the environmental
health groups, as they decried the government for allowing unlawful disposal of
toxic waste from Canada to the Philippines, instead of shipping it back in accord
with the international laws.
Thursday, a group led by
Greenpeace, Ecowaste Coalition, Ban Toxics held a press conference at Quezon
City Memorial Circle, exposing what they called governments’ plan to simply
dump the garbage in Tarlac landfill, the shipment of garbage intercepted by Bureau
of Customs earlier in 2014.
In 2013, a total of 50 forty—foot
container vans from Ontario—based Chronic Inc. started arriving in Manila
International Container Port for consignee Chronic Plastics based in Valenzuela
city. The contents of the said container vans were declared as “scrap
plastic materials for recycling.”
January, Bureau of Customs confiscated
the container vans after discovering that they actually contained possibly
hazardous wastes like used plastic bags, bottles, newspaper, household garbage,
and adult diapers.
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