Philippine officials say they were falsely declared by a private firm as recyclable plastic scraps and have asked Canada to take the garbage back. President Rodrigo Duterte raised the garbage issue in a televised meeting with local officials late Tuesday after visiting earthquake-hit Pampanga province, north of Manila. “Eat it if you want to.”About five truckloads of the garbage, he added, could be dumped at the Canadian Embassy in Manila. A Manila court ordered the private importers in 2016 to ship the waste back to Canada. Canadian regulations “prevented us from being able to receive the waste back in Canada,” Trudeau said in 2017.

Source: Washington Post April 24, 2019 11:33 UTC