'Declare war': Filipino President Duterte gives Canada one week to take trash back | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source
Subscribe

Would you like to subscribe to our newsletter?

Kelowna News

'Declare war': Filipino President Duterte gives Canada one week to take trash back

Filipino environmental activists wear a mock container vans filled with garbage to symbolize the 50 containers of waste that were shipped from Canada to the Philippines two years ago, as they hold a protest outside the Canadian embassy at the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines on May 7, 2015. The president of the Philippines says if Canada doesn't take back its trash within the next week he will 'declare war' and ship the containers back himself. Filipino media outlets are reporting that Rodrigo Duterte made comments Tuesday about dozens of shipping containers filled with Canadian household and electronic garbage that have been rotting in a port near Manila for nearly six years.
Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Aaron Favila

OTTAWA - The president of the Philippines says if Canada doesn't take back tonnes of trash within the next week he will "declare war" and ship the containers back himself.

Filipino media outlets are reporting that Rodrigo Duterte made threats Tuesday about dozens of shipping containers filled with Canadian household and electronic garbage that has been rotting in a port near Manila for nearly six years.

More than 100 of the containers were shipped to Manila by a Canadian company in 2013 and 2014, improperly labelled as plastics for recycling.

Customs inspectors discovered they actually contained garbage, including soiled adult diapers and kitchen trash.

Canada has been trying for nearly six years to convince the Philippines to dispose of the garbage there even though a Filipino court ordered the trash returned to Canada in 2016.

Last week a British Columbia lawyer said in a legal brief that Canada is in violation of the international Basel Convention, which forbids developed nations from sending their toxic or hazardous waste to developing nations without informed consent.

News from © The Canadian Press, 2019
The Canadian Press

  • Popular vernon News
View Site in: Desktop | Mobile