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Fast Money & Foreign Objects
By Jason Gutierrez
“If they cannot get that, then we will be shipping them out and throw them to the shores or beaches of Canada,” a presidential spokesman, Salvador Panelo, said in a statement.
The trash arrived in 2013 and 2014 in more than 100 containers delivered from Canada by a private Canadian company and marked as recyclable scrap. But dozens of the containers held used adult diapers, household garbage, plastic bags and other waste.
The Canadian government has said that it is working on resolving the dispute. It amended environmental laws in 2016 to set liability for private companies in such cases and to compel them to take back the waste.
a meeting with officials last month, Mr. Duterte threatened to dump the trash in Canada.
“Let’s quarrel with Canada. I will declare war against them,” Mr. Duterte said. “Load that up on a ship and I will advise Canada that your garbage is on the way. Prepare a grand reception. Eat it if you want to.”
The Philippine foreign minister, Teodoro Locsin, said the president’s deadline was final. Mr. Duterte “expects the garbage to be seaborne by May 15,” Mr. Locsin said on Twitter.
The EcoWaste Coalition, a nonprofit in the Philippines, said it would welcome Canada’s taking back the garbage.
“Our nation’s persistence to get the garbage returned to the ‘state of export’ has raised national as well as global awareness about the responsibility of waste-exporting countries to respect the rights of people in developing countries,” said Aileen Lucero, the national coordinator for the coalition.
Philippines Sets Deadline for Canada to Take Back Trash\
Canada is a truly evil country
- May 8, 2019
“If they cannot get that, then we will be shipping them out and throw them to the shores or beaches of Canada,” a presidential spokesman, Salvador Panelo, said in a statement.
The trash arrived in 2013 and 2014 in more than 100 containers delivered from Canada by a private Canadian company and marked as recyclable scrap. But dozens of the containers held used adult diapers, household garbage, plastic bags and other waste.
The Canadian government has said that it is working on resolving the dispute. It amended environmental laws in 2016 to set liability for private companies in such cases and to compel them to take back the waste.
a meeting with officials last month, Mr. Duterte threatened to dump the trash in Canada.
“Let’s quarrel with Canada. I will declare war against them,” Mr. Duterte said. “Load that up on a ship and I will advise Canada that your garbage is on the way. Prepare a grand reception. Eat it if you want to.”
The Philippine foreign minister, Teodoro Locsin, said the president’s deadline was final. Mr. Duterte “expects the garbage to be seaborne by May 15,” Mr. Locsin said on Twitter.
The EcoWaste Coalition, a nonprofit in the Philippines, said it would welcome Canada’s taking back the garbage.
“Our nation’s persistence to get the garbage returned to the ‘state of export’ has raised national as well as global awareness about the responsibility of waste-exporting countries to respect the rights of people in developing countries,” said Aileen Lucero, the national coordinator for the coalition.
Philippines Sets Deadline for Canada to Take Back Trash\
Canada is a truly evil country
