Ship carrying Canadian trash arrives from the Philippines

[Tom99]

Good for Philippine. I hope other nations in Asia will stop being the garbage dump for the richer nations.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/garbage-containers-return-1.5195007

A Canadian export company Chronic Inc. — now defunct — originally sent the shipment to the Philippines for recycling in 2013, but eventually it became the centre of a diplomatic dispute after concerns were raised that the containers of plastics had been contaminated with ordinary garbage.

Canadian trash not treasured

The incident has prompted a closer look at the practice of dumping garbage from countries like Canada in the Global North to places in the Global South like the Philippines, says Leonora Angeles, a professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional Planning.

 

[WarKa DaNG]

Why would a country allow itself to be a dumpsite?

 

[jaybird]

Good job by the Philippines. China also stop accepting these unrecyclable garbage from the US not too long ago as well. Western countries shipping all their unrecyclable garbage to undeveloped countries, and then turns around and accusing them of population. The fake moral high ground and hypocrisy is astounding.