A Bureau of Customs personnel checks the trash from South Korea before it was shipped back to its point of origin recently. Just this week another shipment of waste materials which came from Australia was put on hold by the Customs at the port in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
Envi group calls on government anew to ban imported wastes for good
Following the pronouncement of an environment official on why the Philippines has yet to ratify an international treaty that prohibits imported garbage from entering the country, environmental group EcoWaste Coalition has called on the government anew to strictly impose a ban on waste importation “without further delay.”
