A cargo ship carrying 69 shipping containers (1500 tonnes ) of rubbish dumped in the  Philippines  by Canada more than five years ago has left the Southeast Asian country on Friday May 31st, as nations in the region increasingly reject serving as dumpsites for wealthier states.

The Philippine government,headed by Rodrigo Duterte,recalled its ambassador and consuls in Canada earlier this month over Ottawa's failure to comply with a May 15 deadline to take back the waste.

Canada had mislabeled the garbage, which includes plastic bags, bottles, diapers and newspapers, sending tons of household waste instead of recyclable plastics. Western nations,including the US have been sending their garbage to Asian countries for more than 25 years.



China served as the largest international dumping ground until it banned imported plastic waste last year. That pushed much of the foreign trash onto other developing nations like Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Malaysia also said it refused to become an international dumping ground and would return 3,300 tons of waste to Western countries.

I Hope Africa Won't Be The Next International Dumping Ground . What Do You Think?

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What do I need to say now? I go check back later dis go make FP�

Refuse has always being a major problem in the Philippines.

I've always wondered where those mountainous refuse came from, now I know .
Kudos to the their President...even though the guy can be beastly sometimes

Craze dey dere head ..why export waste to another mans land when what they asked for is simply plastic bottles and not diappers

Humans are always humans, Canada has so much unused land that can function as a massive landfill, instead they ship it off to the small island nation of Philippines, kudos to their President for sending it back.

otokx:
Humans are always humans, Canada has so much unused land that can function as a massive landfill, instead they ship it off to the small island nation of Philippines, kudos to their President for sending it back.

Well, I'm an environmentalist and I can tell you for sure that no sane country will bury waste, especially plastics.

Firstly, it can completely ruin the geography of the place it is buried.

Secondly, it can have a negative effect on the water table as rain water seeps into the ground, blends with the reactants and goes further down the water table.

Phillipines is a major recycler, and they had been recycling wastes for decades. The issue with this batch is that the plastics were already too degraded to be recycled properly.

In Nigeria nobody cares

Great job