VANCOUVER — About 1,500 tonnes of garbage that is being sent back to Canada from the Philippines will be taken to a facility in Burnaby, B.C., that turns waste into electricity.
The regional district’s website says its mass-burn facility in Burnaby has been in operation since 1998 and handles about 260,000 tonnes of garbage a year. Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo told a media briefing in Manila on Thursday that Canada’s timeline isn’t good enough and that the Philippine government will have 69 containers of mislabelled Canadian trash shipped across the Pacific no later than next week.
Environment officials say the containers must be fumigated in the Philippines before being loaded onto a ship. The contract with Bollore is worth $1.14 million.
McKenna will just dump in our fresh water systems.
Whatever idiot sent garbage instead of the recyclable materials that were supposed to be sent is responsible for this fiasco!