SBMA renews call to rid Canada trash from its ports

The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) expressed anew the need to clear off their bays from the tons of garbage illegally shipped from Canada to the Philippines.

The containers of trash were first brought to the Port of Manila by Chronic Plastics Incorporated (CPI), an export company based in Ontario, Canada last 2013 and was moved under the care of Subic Bay International Terminal Corp. (SBITC) last 2014. Some of the trash were also disposed in a dumpsite in Capas, Tarlac.

SBMA Administrator Wilma Eisma expressed disappointment as to why they are the ones that has to suffer.

“I would like to start discussions on how to resolve the issue that it be taken out of here because we were not the original consigned or port of destination. Why should we suffer?” Eisma was quoted as saying in a GMA News report.

Even though It’s in an area that is isolated that doesn’t affect investors and the environment, Eisma said that it shouldn’t be tolerated.

“It should be taken out because, at the end of the day, the whole country and not just Subic should not be a dumping ground for trash or anybody else whether you are a powerful country, you are a rich country, a poor country. Do you want your neighbors to throw trash on you? Of course, you don’t,” she added.

DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 11/ 23 /17