No to dumping of garbage in the country

The Philippines should not be a dumping ground of garbage from faraway Canada, or from any other country for that matter.

        

That's the spirit behind a proposed bill banning of the importation, shipment, entry and dumping of garbage, hazardous scrap or residual wastes in the country.

      

House Bill 5930 or the “Anti-Trash Act of 2015”, authored by Quezon City Rep. Winston Catelo, seeks to address health and environmental issues and its impact on the economy of the country by pushing for the bill that prohibits entry of garbage in the country.

      

The filing of the bill follows close on the hills of the controversy over the entry into the Philippines of 50 container vans containing wastes from Canada.

      

"No country in the world should be dumping site for another country's trash. It should therefore be banned for items, materials, or substances detrimental to health and environment to be loaded on container vans and be shipped or imported from foreign countries under any guise that such are recyclables, filling materials or declared as stuff. The Philippines is simply not a dumping ground for such filth," according to Castelo. –End-

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