Burying poor countries in our non-biodegradable, toxic waste is no solution. The dirty secret is that most of the waste we are discarding is not being dealt with responsibly. The answer is not to close our eyes and be happy it disappears from our trash bins, but to stop making this waste in the first place. See “Eat it if you want to”, Phillipino President Duterte lashes out over Canadian cargo of trash:
The president of the Philippines says that if Canada doesn’t take back tonnes of trash within the next week, he will “declare war” and ship the containers back himself.
Filipino media outlets are reporting that Rodrigo Duterte made threats Tuesday about dozens of shipping containers filled with Canadian household and electronic garbage that has been rotting in a port near Manila for nearly six years.
More than 100 of the containers were shipped to Manila by a Canadian company in 2013 and 2014, improperly labelled as plastics for recycling. Customs inspectors discovered they actually contained garbage, including soiled adult diapers and kitchen trash.
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