{"id":50066,"date":"2015-05-21T18:04:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T10:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50066"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T19:28:01","slug":"manila-stance-vs-canadian-garbage-draws-support-from-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/21\/manila-stance-vs-canadian-garbage-draws-support-from-civil-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Manila stance vs Canadian garbage draws support from civil society"},"content":{"rendered":"
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QUEZON CITY — Following Manila City Council\u2019s call for the immediate removal of hazardous garbage from Canada sitting in Manila\u2019s port, environmental justice groups urged the Government of Canada to act in good faith and re-import the controversial garbage shipment at once.<\/p>\n

Last May 14, the City Council, led by Vice Mayor Isko Moreno, adopted the resolution principally authored by Councilor DJ Bagatsing and co-authored by Councilor Numero Lim and 29 other councilors, urging the Canadian government as well as the interagency task force dealing with the issue to remove the reeking garbage sitting in Manila\u2019s port that \u201cpose dangerous health and ecological risks\u201d to the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

Through a follow-up statement after the resolution was adopted, Bagatsing and Lim asserted that: \u201cThe decent response ought to be for Canada to take back its illegally shipped hazardous waste, akin to the honorable action taken by Japan back in 1999, and it is only right that this precedent be followed and pursued, in keeping with the essence of strong bilateral ties and friendly relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is truly saddening to see a powerful first world elite country have its own way unfairly over a vulnerable developing nation who, in this case, will be the one left holding the trashbag,\u201d the two councilors added.<\/p>\n

Manila\u2019s objection to the continued stay of Canada\u2019s garbage in the city drew support from the EcoWaste Coalition and other allied groups from the environmental and labor movements, stressing that \u201cthe Philippines is not a dumpsite.<\/p>\n

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\u201dV\u201cWe sympathize with the government and people of Manila who have to bear the brunt of this despicable garbage dumping from overseas,\u201d said Aileen Lucero, Coordinator, EcoWaste Coalition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe removal of the reeking garbage from Philippine soil is of utmost importance for the national interest and Canada must stop ignoring its responsibility to take back their unwanted rubbish,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not enough for the garbage-filled container vans to be taken from one site to another and burden the unfortunate local government unit (LGU) with a problem not of its making,\u201d she emphasized.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLGUs hosting potential facilities where the Canadian garbage will be sent for burial or incineration should categorically state their refusal to accept the imported trash,\u201d Lucero said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot allow Canada to treat our communities as cheap disposal sites for their discards,\u201d she emphasize.<\/p>\n

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Echoing the statement made by Bishop Broderick Pabillo on the Canadian garbage issue, Lucero reminded the Canadian and Filipino authorities that \u201cit will be unjust for a community in Manila, Bulacan, Tarlac or elsewhere to become a toxic sacrificial site for Canada\u2019s hazardous garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The outspoken bishop, who chairs the Public Affairs Committee of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines, had earlier said that \u201cno community deserves to be a dumping ground for wastes and toxics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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