A 2015 file photo showing environmental activists in the Philippines protesting to demand Canada take back containers of waste that had been sent to the Southeast Asian nation. Photo: AP A 2015 file photo showing environmental activists in the Philippines protesting to demand Canada take back containers of waste that had been sent to the Southeast Asian nation. Photo: AP
A 2015 file photo showing environmental activists in the Philippines protesting to demand Canada take back containers of waste that had been sent to the Southeast Asian nation. Photo: AP
The Philippines
Asia /  Southeast Asia

The Philippines vows to return 25 tonnes of trash dumped by Hong Kong

  • The crushed electronic materials arrived at the Mindanao Container Terminal on January 2, but were only discovered on May 22
  • The latest scandal comes as Manila is locked in a separate row with Canada over 2,500 tonnes of household waste shipped between 2014 and 2015

Topic |   The Philippines
Jeoffrey Maitem

Updated: 6:06pm, 31 May, 2019

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A 2015 file photo showing environmental activists in the Philippines protesting to demand Canada take back containers of waste that had been sent to the Southeast Asian nation. Photo: AP A 2015 file photo showing environmental activists in the Philippines protesting to demand Canada take back containers of waste that had been sent to the Southeast Asian nation. Photo: AP
A 2015 file photo showing environmental activists in the Philippines protesting to demand Canada take back containers of waste that had been sent to the Southeast Asian nation. Photo: AP
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