EXPORTING WASTE WERE BANNED?
Oct 15, 2020
3 minutes
The protesters in the Philippines were emphatic. ‘Take back!’ read their placards. Their anger was directed at 69 container loads of waste, shipped from Canada, mislabelled as ‘plastic recyclables’ but actually just garbage, including dirty diapers, stuck and stinking in customs since 2013 and 2014.
Last year, after a long battle, Canada finally took back the trash. But what this story illustrates is far from over. Indeed, it may be about to get
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