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An environmentalist displays a photo of a garbage container from Canada during a protest at the Philippine Senate in Manila to demand that Ottawa speed up its removal of the trash, which was shipped to the country six years ago, May 24, 2019.
Corruption in the customs bureau has led to mountains of foreign garbage accumulating in the Philippines, a Filipino senator claimed Wednesday during a speech in the upper house, a day before tons of trash were to be sent to Canada.
Despite efforts to modernize the Bureau of Customs, the Philippines remains in “one hell of a mess,” courtesy of corruption that pervades the agency that President Rodrigo Duterte had vowed to clean up, Sen. Panfilo Lacson, an independent, told fellow senators.
“To say that our country is treated like trash appears to be true, as in literally, amid news reports of tons of waste being illegally shipped into our lands, no thanks to local and foreign smugglers, unscrupulous customs brokers and corrupt customs officials,” Lacson said.
Lacson charged that certain elements in the bureau appeared to have neglected their duties by allowing the entry of tons of hazardous waste. Because he made the speech as part of his official duty, the senator was free to speak his mind with full immunity.
Customs officials could not be reached immediately to respond to the senator’s comments.
Thousands of tons of trash that came to the Philippines from Canada several years have not yet been shipped back to the country of origin, despite repeated reminders from the government, the senator noted. It took Duterte having to threaten to dump the trash on Canadian shores personally for Ottawa to take the situation seriously, Lacson suggested.
On Wednesday, Secretary of Justice Menardo Guevarra, who spoke for the government while Duterte was visiting Japan, said shipments of the Canadian trash would leave the Philippines imminently.
Ottawa contended that the garbage was mistakenly shipped to the Philippines between 2013 and 2014, and mislabeled as recyclable material.
In recent weeks, the issue of the lingering Canadian garbage has angered Filipinos. It also led to a bilateral dispute, which saw Manila recall its ambassador and consuls to Canada earlier this month.
Last week, the Canadian government said it would take back the garbage by June and cover the shipping costs.
“Luckily for us, we are about to bid this rotting problem goodbye. For a start, the Canadian trash is sailing back to Canada,” Sen. Lacson said Wednesday, noting that countries such as Australia, South Korea and China were known to ship their trash to the Philippines.
In 2018, South Korea sent thousands of tons of garbage, which arrived here in July and August. Earlier in 2019, the Philippines began shipping 51 containers falsely labeled as plastic synthetic flakes back to South Korea, which agreed to pay for shipping an additional 5,100 tons of waste.
While there have been successes, Lacson said that electrical and residual waste from Hong Kong had entered the country’s ports by being improperly declared as “assorted electronic accessories.” The waste was meant to be a “trial shipment” by a Chinese firm, and about 70 more containers of waste were waiting to be dumped in the Philippines, he said.
“And just last week, Australia shipped seven container vans of shredded municipal waste into our country. Worse, the shipment’s broker was the same company that handled the importation from South Korea,” the senator said.
Lacson, a former police officer who had blown the whistle previously on corruption at the customs bureau, said he would forward the names of an alleged Chinese syndicate behind the shipments of trash, adding it was “well entrenched” and ran a sophisticated operation.
“We denounce this latest attempt to bring into the country over 25 tons of mixed plastic waste from Hong Kong. We therefore request the Chinese government to seriously look into this matter,” Lucero said.
Froilan Gallardo and Jeoffrey Maitem contributed to this report from Cagayan de Oro and Cotabato, Philippines.
The Childcare puzzle: improving quality AND affordability?
Childcare provision in the UK is of lower quality than in many other countries and more expensive for families. However, there is considerable variation within the UK in both quality and cost, and the three-way relationship between quality, cost and family background is neither straightforward nor well understood.
This project will examine existing UK data to enhance what we know about the quality and cost of care received by children from different social backgrounds. Researchers will then look beyond the UK, examining the mechanisms through which four or five other countries deliver high quality care, focusing in particular on how they ensure that good quality care is accessible to children from lower-income families. It will aim to come up with policy options for the UK which go beyond simply “spend more”, and to model the potential cost implications of these policy alternatives.
Researcher:
Dr Kitty Stewart, CASE at LSE
Funding Programme
Amount and duration:
£99,825
September 2011 - May 2013
Working Paper
A question of quality: Do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England? Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel, CASE, March 2013
Summary Brief
Equal access to high quality early education and care? Evidence from England and lessons from other countries by Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel, CASE, March 2013
See also
- Deprivation and Children’s Services Outcomes: a mapping study
- Childcare: a strategic national priority?
- An evaluation of innovative HE courses for student parents
- Measuring living standards
- Modelling taxes on wealth
- Identifying ‘quality’ in childcare
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