Canada Garbage

• The Philippines is shipping back Canada’s heaping garbage. What’s Ottawa going to do with the trash?

  A cargo ship has arrived in a northern port in the Philippines, and is ready to return a massive pile of rotting garbage to Canada — 1,500 tonnes to be exact.

  Canada

  May 30, 2019
  
• Cargo ship arrives in Philippines, will transport 69 containers of garbage back to Canada

  A cargo ship arrived in a northern Philippine port on Thursday to transport 69 containers of garbage back to Canada that officials say were shipped illegally to the Philippines.

  Canada

  May 30, 2019
  
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• Canadian trash at heart of ‘war’ with Philippines to be burned in Metro Vancouver power plant

  Metro Vancouver describes the facility as the "most environmentally sustainable option to recover energy and resources from waste that cannot be reused or recycled."

  May 24, 2019
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• Philippines’ Duterte suggests dumping garbage on Canada’s ‘beautiful beaches’

  Meanwhile, Canada says it is working on a solution to the lingering garbage dispute.

  Environment

  Apr 30, 2019
• ‘We will declare war’: Philippines’ Duterte gives Canada 1 week to take back garbage

  The president of the Philippines says if Canada doesn't take back tonnes of trash within the next week he will "declare war" and ship the containers back himself.

  World

  Apr 23, 2019
• Activists urge Justin Trudeau to take Canada’s trash out of Philippines

  In 2013 and 2014, a total of 103 shipping containers from Canada labelled as plastics arrived in the Philippines for recycling, but Filipino customs inspectors determined the containers were actually filled with debris from Canadian trash bins.

  Canada

  Jan 30, 2019
• Environment ministers set goal of cutting Canadian waste in half by 2040

  By 2030, they want to reduce the total amount of waste Canada throws out by 30 per cent; by 2040, they want to cut the quantity by 50 per cent.

  Canada

  Nov 23, 2018