Gov’t told: Ban importation of waste in PH, protect Filipinos’ health, environment

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An environmental group appealed to the government to ban the importation of wastes into the country, warning of the hazards it poses to people’s health. | FArgosinoINQ

The Basel Convention Ban Amendment “prohibits the export of hazardous wastes from developed to developing countries for reuse, recycling, recovery operations, and other reasons.”

EcoWaste remembered the arrival of a shipload of mixed garbage from South Korea in 2018, which was wrongly declared as “plastic synthetic flakes.

 

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