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Trudeau urged anew to take back Canadian trash dumped in PHL

(Eagle News) – -The EcoWaste Coalition has reiterated its demand for Canada to take its trash back. In her letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Aileen Lucero, coordinator for the environmental group, noted that the issue of the container vans filled with mixed waste including diapers, electronic equipment, among others, languishing in the Philippines has “dragged on for five years without resolution, despite promises from the Canadian government to address the problem..” According to […]

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PM Trudeau says Canada will “continue to work” to resolve problem of Canada trash in PHL

(Eagle News) — Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said he gave President Rodrigo Duterte his “assurance” Canada would “continue to work” on the issue of garbage originating from his country and that was still languishing in the Philippines. But Trudeau did not specifically say the trash brought to the Asian country by 103 container vans from 2013 to 2014 would indeed be returned to Canada. “Canada is very much engaged in finding a […]

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