MANILA – As Canadians celebrated “Canada Day,” yesterday, a local environmental group and a party-list group pressed the affluent country not to forget its illegal garbage exports that have been languishing at Manila and Subic ports for years. In a joint statement, the EcoWaste Coalition and the Ang NARS Party-List reiterated the urgency of removing the 98 shipping containers of plastic scraps and other residual garbage out of Philippine territory.
The first case, consisting of 50 container vans of garbage shipped to Chronic Plastics based in Valenzuela City, arrived in the country in six batches beginning June to August 2013; while the second case, comprising of 48 container vans imported by Live Green Enterprise located in San Fernando City, Pampanga, were sent in four batches from December 2013 to January 2014. “As Canadians mark their national day, we request them to tell their government not to turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to our relentless plea for environmental justice,” said Aileen Lucero, Coordinator, EcoWaste Coalition.
Lucero added: “Please ask your government to take back the unlawful garbage shipments to bring this longunning controversy to a close,” as she begged nature-loving Canadians for solidarity.
For her part, Ang NARS Party-List Representative Leah Samaco Paquiz, said: “The immediate re-importation of the Canada garbage will conclude a stinking chapter in Canada-Philippine relations that has sparked fiery protest on the streets as well as online.” (PNA)
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