Members of the environmental watchdog EcoWaste Coalition hold a picket at the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) sub-port in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental during the send-off of the 2.561 tons of electronic waste back to Hong Kong, China at the MCT facility in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, Monday, June 3, 2019. At the back is the container van containing the imported e-waste. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
The environmental watchdog EcoWaste Coalition has reminded the government not to allow the country to become the world’s garbage dump, as the 2.561 tons of electronic wastes (e-wastes) from China’s special administrative region of Hong Kong were sent back to its point of origin Monday noon.