{"id":61134,"date":"2015-09-11T01:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61134"},"modified":"2015-09-11T01:31:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:31:53","slug":"bring-back-illegal-trash-to-canada-says-escudero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/11\/bring-back-illegal-trash-to-canada-says-escudero\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring back illegal trash to Canada, says Escudero"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53806\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/escudero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53806\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/escudero.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Francis &quot;Chiz&quot; Escudero (Photo from PRIB Senado\/Romy Bugante)\" width=\"830\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/escudero.jpg 830w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/escudero-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Francis &#8220;Chiz&#8221; Escudero (Photo from PRIB Senado\/Romy Bugante)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Senator Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero, who chairs Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, reiterated calls to return tons of imported garbage back to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGaling Canada \u2018yan. Hindi tayo basurahan. Dapat lamang ibalik sa kanila (That\u2019s from Canada. We\u2019re not [other countries\u2019] garbage collectors. It should be brought back to them),\u201d Escudero said in an interview with dzMM.<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to 40-feet cargos containing an assortment of trash from household wastes like adult diapers to hazardous wastes. These were sent to the Philippines from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>On reports that the Bureau of Customs (BOC) tried to dispose the garbage in a landfill in Tarlac, the senator noted that they would ask Customs Commissioner Bert Lina to explain such allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGinawan na lamang ng paraan ni Commissioner Lina ng Bureau of Customs. Tinawagan niya \u2018yung shipper ng mga basura, \u2018yung may-ari ng mga container. Kinausap niya \u2018yung landfill o waste disposal facility sa Clark,\u201d Escudero said.<\/p>\n<p>(Commissioner Lina from the Bureau of Customs tried to resolve the issue. He called the shippers of the trash, the owner of the containers. He talked to the landfill or waste disposal facility in Clark.)<\/p>\n<p>Asserting for the wastes\u2019 reshipment, he called on the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to raise the matter to their Canadian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada was treated with kid gloves. Dapat mas matindi at mas mabigat ang posisyon natin laban dito (Our position against it should be harder, more serious),\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Senator Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero, who chairs Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, reiterated calls to return tons &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":53806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-61134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}