It's a homecoming unlike any other: 69 shipping containers of garbage
— ripened over six years — arrived at Tsawwassen terminal on B.C.'s West
Coast Saturday morning.
The
Anna Maersk, carrying the containers of Canadian garbage and e-waste,
docked just after 7 a.m. Authorities say the containers will be unloaded
and held there before being moved to an incineration facility in
Burnaby. ...
A Canadian export company Chronic Inc. — now defunct — originally
sent the shipment to the Philippines for recycling in 2013, but
eventually it became the centre of a diplomatic dispute after concerns
were raised that the containers of plastics had been contaminated with
ordinary garbage.
The
1,500-tonne shipment generated protests by environmentalists, and
eventually a diplomatic incident. President Rodrigo Duterte called on
Canada to take back its garbage by May 15.
When that deadline was missed, he recalled the Philippine ambassador and consuls general last month.
The garbage left June 1 and was transferred onto the Anna Maersk on June 8 in Taiwan for the voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
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