:0 ti'jN '201;3 DATE. T4 . DAY, trn Ii t INT rrn-ri, strategic Communication and Initiative Service S1 ItATECle att COMNITINICATION 1 R o UPPER PAGET BANNER EDITORIAL CARTOON assmailtiellars.1 iN111 AIR' ES STORY STORY PAGE Siej." SERVICE LOWER TITLE: allialteatiI &CA MON NI OTT 0 OV ON . I WITH TRASH FINALLY OUT, PH DIPLOMATS RETURNING TO CANADA By Dona Z. Pazzibugan ship back the 69 containers of numb" Antiporda said. and Jhesset 0. Enano garbage," Locsin said. @Team_Inquirer MV Bavaria arrived at Subic Basel Ban Amendment at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday and Groups like the EcoWaste Tons of garbage illegallyex- lifted anchor at 7:22 a.m. on Fri- Coalition and Greenpeace ported to the country 'years day, taking more than to hours Philippines have called on the ago were finally shipped back to load the containers. government to ratify the Basel to Canada on Friday, prompt- Ottawa took back the gar- Ban Amendment, which pro- ing Foreign Secretary Teo- bage more than two weeks af- hibits the export of hazardous doro Locsin Jr. to order the re- ter the President threatened to wastes, including those intend- turn of Filipino diplomats to declare war on Canada and ed for recycling, from rich na- their posts in the North Amer- dump the trash in front of its tions to poor countries. ican country. embassy in Manila. The call to ban the impor- The 69 containers of gar- After Canada missed his tation of all waste came as the bage were loaded overnight deadline, Mr. Duterte lashed government faced new criti- ontd the MV Bavaria, a Libefa- out at Ottawa and directed of- cism over the entry of contain- flagged container shiP, at ficials to hire a company that ers of trash from Atistralia and Subic Bay Freeport and began would ship the trash and leave Hong Kong at the Mindanao the 23-day voyage to the Cana- it in Canadian waters. International Container Ter- dian city of Vancouver at Ot- minal in Misamis Oriental tawa's expense. DENR mulls moratorium province. Presidential spokesperson On Friday, the Department Antiporda said stricter secu- Salvador Panelo on Friday sa d of Environment and Natural rity measures should be put in he hoped ties with Canada Resources (DENR) said it was place so that recyclable wastes would now return to normal. planning to impose a moratori- could not enter the country and Locsin said the diplothatic um on the entry of all recy- languish in the ports. row over the trash had ended clable scrap materials into the "This ordeal has taught us and urged both countries to country. of the urgency of correcting "move on" since "there's more A DENR administration or- outmoded regulations allow- than garbage between us." der issued in 2013 allows the ing waste imports into the "The garbage is gone, good importation of recyclable ma- country under the guise of re- riddance," Locsin posted on terials, including scrap metals, cycling," said Aileen Luceto, Twitter with images of MV plastics and electronics. national coordinator of EcoW- Bavaria leaving the port at Environmental activists aste Coalition. Subic. "Baaaaaaaaa bye, as we gathered in Subic as the con- With the -return of the 69 say it." tainers were being prepared on containers to Canada, Dicer° To the diplomats he had re- Thursday, holding banners also urged the Bureau of Cus- called after Canada missed that said "never again" and "we toms to disclose information President Duterte's Ma' are not the world's dump." on how the wastes from eight deadline to take back the trash, A local •court in 2016 de- other containers were dis- Locsin said: "To our recalled clared the importation of 2,400 posed of. posts, get your flights hack. tons of Canadian trash illegal. Customs officials said the Thanks and sorry for the t irou- Environment Undersecre- contents of 34 of the original ble you went through to drive tary Benny Antiporda told the 103 containers had been emp- home a point." Inquirer the proposed morato- tied in a landfill of the Metro rium on all waste imports Clark Waste Management No media coverage would be discussed by Envi- Corp. at Barangay Kalangitan The Department of Foreign ronment Secretary Roy Cimatu in Capas town, Tarlac, in July Affairs (DFA) barred media with other agencies. 2015. coverage of the loading of the "We will first come up But the company said it on- trash onto the container slip. with numbers and check who ly accounted tor 26 containers. "Canada pulled all the stops benefits from these imports, —WITH REPORTS FROM JOANNA on this: seamless cooperation so we can analyze the eco- ROSE AGLIBOT, AFP AND by shouldering the expense to nomic impact of the [morato- REUTERS INQ STRATEGIC Li UPPER PAGE I EARNER EDITORIAL CARTOON °MIDION It ATMS STORY STORY IN elk MANILAVIULLETIN PAGE LovirR SERVICE THE NATION'S LEADING NEWSPAPER 0 NUN 2019 DATE TIRE : FAGS I/ I IPIR!!! IMP!1111111 ti !LIM, 7 7 MARIA MONROVIA RETURN TO SENDER - Cargo ship MV Bavaria sails out to sea after it was loaded with 69 containers filled with Canadian wastes at the Subic Bay Freeport in Oiongapo City, Friday, May 31. The Canadian government agreed to take back the more than 2,450 tons of garbage after Ptesident Rodrigo Rea Duterte expressed outrage that the Philippines has become a dumping ground for the trash. (EPA) Recalled Filipino diplomats in Canada told to return to posts By ROY C. MABASA apologized to the recalled diplomats, trash shipped to the Philippines from led by Ambassador to Ottawa Petronila 2013 to 2014, left Subic port on Friday Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Garcia, and thanked the Canadian Em- morning onboard cargo vessel MV Locsin Jr. on Friday ordered Filipino bassy in Manila for their cooperation. Bavarian. diplomats recalled from their diplomatic "To our recalled posts, get your Last April, President Duterte posts in Canada to go back shortly after flights back. Thanks and sorry for the stepped up the pressure on Ottawa by the tons of Canadian wastes were finally trouble you went through to drive home issuing a May 15 deadline for the ship- loaded onto a ship, and left the Subic a point. Arrivederci! And thank you ment of the waste back to Canada. yesterday en route to Vancouver. Canada CDA Mucci," he said. Duterte even threatened to go to In a social media post, Locsin also The over 1,000 tons of Canadian "war" with Canada if the latter fails 0.9 _ . _ _Jr s. STRAIN:IC iiiFonir Of P -CI PIIIIiiiTLITTB ERGO !kJ-% 6A IOTA PAGE! BANNER EINTGRIAT CARTOON INTER COMMUNICATION Blom Blom IN RAGE TOWER -1 Tiossioosissie SINIVICIT MAN1LAVBULLETIN THE NATION'S LEADING NEWSPAPER .0 1 JUN 2019 DATE TITLE: PAGE I/ Rocetqed Merin 1.0 nvq,( anade, 17) n kirri h posrs Recalled Filipino diplomats....i to retrieve the garbnge left languishing in reeking garbage from the Port of Subic Philippine ports for almost six years. north of Manila as a "victory for the rule Canada, however, missed the dead- of law, morality and the environment." line, citing government red tape in the "We feel jubilant that 69 containers processing of documents. of Canadian rubbish are now homeward In protest, the Du erte administra- bound after being stranded here for so tion upped the ante by recalling the Phil- long," said Aileen Lucero, National Coor- ippine envoy and several other consular dinator, EcoWaste Coalition. officials in Canada. "The Philippines is not the world's dumpsite. Never again shall we allow other Lauded countries to trash our dignity, our people's Meanwhile, environmental and health and the environment," she added. cause-oriented gtoups all over the In 2013 and 2014, 103 containers world have expressed relief after the 69 of more than 2,400 tons of trash from containers of trash were reshipped back Canada arrived in the Philippines which yesterday to Canada after languishing were declared as scrap plastics for re- in the Philippines, for six years. cycling but actually contained plastics, In a joint statemeffi, the EcoWaste household garbage, used adult diapers Coalition, RightOnCalliada and IPEN and electronic waste. (With a report described the historic departure of the from Chito Chavez) 1 _ _ s I RA EGIT I 1 I I I I COMAIIINICA ION UPPER PAGE 1 BANNER EDITORIAL CARTOON STORY INI FIATIVES STORY WilliWWw._'__ SERVICE PAGE LOWER NnEWOL~F 0 i JUN ZUib TITLE: PAGE'! DATE DFA orders envoys to fly back to Canada ; MALACANA NG sees a possible rec- onciliation with Canada as Canada's trash shipment begins its journey back to the North American coma ry. Tons of garbage sent to the Philip- pines years ago was shipped back 10 Canada on Friday after a festering I diplomatic row, as Asian nations i n- creashigly reject serving as dumping grounds for international trash. After a long campaign to. urge Can- ada to take back the rotting waste, President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Ottawa -last week and ordered . the • Next page refuse returned immediately. The 69 shipping containers of garbage were loaded onto a cargo vessel at Subic ' Bay, a former US naval base and shipping port northwest of Manila, and began the lengthy trip to Canada. "We feel jubilant that 69 containers of I Canadian rubbish are now homeward- bound after being stranded here for so long," said Aileen Lucero, National Coor- dinator of the EcoWaste Coalition. "The Philippines is not the world's dump site. Never again shall we allow other countries to trash our dignity, our, people's health and the environment." On Friday, Foreign Affairs Secre- tary Teodoro Locsin Jr.