ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWThe container Ghuman dropped off Sunday was one of 103 sent to the Philippines six years ago as recycling waste. The containers, filled with 1,500 tonnes of waste, left the Philippines on May 31 aboard the MV Bavaria cargo ship. The Burnaby waste to energy facility converts about 25 per cent of the region’s household trash into energy every year using mass burn technology. In an interview, director of solid waste at Metro Vancouver, Chris Allan, said the contamination in the containers was minimal. “Environment Canada and CFIA have inspected the material when it was over in the Philippines and they’ve got waste audits of it and we’ve seen the waste audits.

Source: thestar June 30, 2019 23:15 UTC