"To be honest, as a dad, it's tough trying to explain this to my kids. How do you explain dead whales washing up on beaches around the world, their stomachs jam-packed with plastic bags?" Trudeau said. That's a problem, one that we have to do something about. Canada agreed to take it back last month after a protracted diplomatic spat.Malaysia similarly said it would return 3,000 tons of plastic waste from Canada, the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Source: The Star June 10, 2019 23:15 UTC