“We hope that the clamor for Canada to get their trash out of the Philippines will not again fall on deaf ears,” Aileen Lucero, EcoWaste Coalition national coordinator, said. Joey Papa, president of Bangon Kalikasan, lamented that Canada has ignored the issue for six years. Between 2013 and 2014, Canada shipped 103 container vans of wastes—which contained household trash, used adult diapers and electronic waste—to the Philippines. President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday warned Canada that he would be sailing to the North American country to dump their trash back. This prompted the Canadian Embassy in Manila to say Ottawa is committed in collaborating with the Philippines to address the dumping of waste in the country.

Source: Philippine Star April 26, 2019 02:56 UTC