Showing posts with label Manila. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manila. Show all posts
Monday, May 6, 2019
From Canada with Garbage (2)
On April 10, 2015, I wrote about garbage from Canada shipped and dumped onto the Philippines. At the time, the Government of Canada said it was a private business matter and refused to take the garbage back. I can't believe that this problem has resurfaced in the news and still has not been solved after all these years.
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The Philippine Asian News Today said," In 2013 and 2014, a Canadian company shipped about 103 containers wrongly labelled as plastics for recycling to a port near Manila". Rodrigo Duterte, the president of Philippines threatened to declare war against Canada,"Eat it if you want to … Your garbage is coming home".
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Canadians are environmentally concerned people, but is it fair that you keep your own home clean by dumping your garbage onto somebody else's home? Cross-border garbage dumping, legal or not, may be a profitable business, but is it moral and ethical?
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I've learned that the company which shipped the garbage to the Philippines no long exists, and the Government of Canada has agreed to take back the garbage. Beware, it is coming back to Vancouver!
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Friday, April 10, 2015
From Canada With Garbage
Canadian garbage angers Filipinos!
In the news, Filipino environmentalists protested that some 50 container vans of Canadian garbage were sitting at the port of Manila, and insisted that they should be sent back to Canada. Protesters complained that their country Philippines is not Canada's garbage dump.
Both the Governments of Philippines and Canada seemed to avoid responsibility, since it was a commercial shipment, a private business matter. What a stupid excuse !!! Canada refused to take back the garbage, which was relocated somewhere else locally.
This kind of cross-border garbage business really stinks. It may be a profitable business, but is it moral and ethical ? Shouldn't our environmental concerns cover the whole world, the entire Planet Earth, and not just our own country?
In the news, Filipino environmentalists protested that some 50 container vans of Canadian garbage were sitting at the port of Manila, and insisted that they should be sent back to Canada. Protesters complained that their country Philippines is not Canada's garbage dump.
Both the Governments of Philippines and Canada seemed to avoid responsibility, since it was a commercial shipment, a private business matter. What a stupid excuse !!! Canada refused to take back the garbage, which was relocated somewhere else locally.
This kind of cross-border garbage business really stinks. It may be a profitable business, but is it moral and ethical ? Shouldn't our environmental concerns cover the whole world, the entire Planet Earth, and not just our own country?
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