OTTAWA — The Philippines has rejected Canada’s late-June timeline for repatriating its garbage and is moving forward with plans to ship it back to Canada itself. Environment officials say the containers must be fumigated in the Philippines before being loaded onto a ship. Now exports must obtain permits from Environment and Climate Change Canada to ship waste if either Canada or the importing nation deems the contents to be hazardous. Reports from Manila say seven containers of garbage are now being rejected by the Philippines. That garbage was to be burned for energy in the Philippines but the country says that violates its clean-air laws.

Source: National Post May 24, 2019 05:03 UTC