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Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years
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Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years

After Being Threatened With War, Canadians Take Back Their Garbage From The Philippines Ending A 6-Year-Long DisputeCanadians Collect Their Long Forgotten Garbage, Ending 6-year-long-dispute With PhilippinesCompany Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 YearsCanadians Take Back 69 Containers Of Garbage, Ending 6-year-long Dispute With PhilippinesCompany Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 YearsCanadians Take Back 69 Containers Of Garbage, Ending 6-year-long Dispute With Philippines69 Garbage Containers Return To Canada From Philippines, Ending 6-Year-Long DisputeAfter 6-year-long Dispute Over Garbage Containers Shipped To Philippines, Canada Finally Took Them BackCompany Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 YearsCompany Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years
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Canada welcomes back its garbage as a ship carrying 69 containers of waste mislabeled as plastic recyclables were returned to the rightful owners. The Canada-Philippines dispute over waste started back in 2013 when a recycling company shipped mislabeled Canadian garbage to Manila. After a Filipino court ruled in 2016 that the garbage must be returned, Canadians made arrangements this May to accept it and bring it back home. The waste is said to be sent to a Waste-to-Energy facility in Burnaby where it will be incinerated.

Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years

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The containers were loaded overnight at the port of Subic in Manila and were sent on a month-long journey to Vancouver last week. After a long-running row over waste export, a Philippine court in 2016 declared the import of Canadian waste (the whole 2,400 tonnes) illegal, which were mislabeled as plastics for recycling.

Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years

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Canada says that the waste that was exported to the Philippines some five years ago was a private transaction done by a corporation without the Canadian government’s consent. The port back in Canada checked the containers before they left and verified that they really did contain recyclable plastics, therefore, the Filipino company accepted the shipment.

Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years

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Later on, the Canadian company was informed that the container that was supposed to contain recyclable plastics, in fact, contained garbage. Since then, the company has gone bankrupt leaving no legal entity responsible for the action.

Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years

Image credits: Ecowaste Coalition

The waste containers caused so much trouble, it even started a diplomatic dispute between the officials of the two countries. Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines even threatened Canada with war and withdrew two of its diplomats from Canada after it failed to meet the deadline to take back its garbage.

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Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years

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Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years

Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years

Company Illegally Ships 69 Garbage Containers To Philippines, Almost Starts A War When Canada Refuses To Take Them Back For 6 Years

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a Canadian, I say sorry about that. You declared war on us though?! That's it, I'm only saying sorry twice, jerk, and I used up one of them in this sentence, so have a nice day. BTW you smell nice.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For anyone else wondering why Canada wouldn't take it back. Apparently there were laws in place that meant we couldn't, and those had to be worked around. I wish I had more details, but it does explain it a bit. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Philippines_waste_dispute, https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/14/17/trudeau-canada-working-to-resolve-irritant-trash-issue-with-ph)

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a Canadian, I say sorry about that. You declared war on us though?! That's it, I'm only saying sorry twice, jerk, and I used up one of them in this sentence, so have a nice day. BTW you smell nice.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For anyone else wondering why Canada wouldn't take it back. Apparently there were laws in place that meant we couldn't, and those had to be worked around. I wish I had more details, but it does explain it a bit. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Philippines_waste_dispute, https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/14/17/trudeau-canada-working-to-resolve-irritant-trash-issue-with-ph)

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