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Offline TomSea

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Canada takes garbage back from Philippines, ending long dispute
« on: June 30, 2019, 05:49:59 am »
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Canada takes garbage back from Philippines, ending long dispute
[AFP]Alia Dharssi
,AFP•June 29, 2019

Vancouver (AFP) - Tonnes of Canadian garbage left in the Philippines for years arrived back home Saturday, putting an end to a festering diplomatic row that highlighted how Asian nations have grown tired of being the world's trash dump.

A cargo vessel loaded with about 69 containers of rubbish docked in a port on the outskirts of Vancouver, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.

The trash will be incinerated at a waste-to-energy facility, local officials said.

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Re: Canada takes garbage back from Philippines, ending long dispute
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2019, 07:41:43 am »
After months in the tropical heat, those containers should be opened by robots....
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Re: Canada takes garbage back from Philippines, ending long dispute
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2019, 09:49:36 pm »
Sounds like something out of "Alice's Restaurant"...
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Re: Canada takes garbage back from Philippines, ending long dispute
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2019, 09:01:30 am »
Quote from: Fishrrman on June 30, 2019, 09:49:36 pm
Sounds like something out of "Alice's Restaurant"...
Without the 27 8X10 full color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one....
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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