The Philippines refuses to be the First World's trash dump

Manila (Philippines), May 30 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Francis Malasig/Rolex dela Pena). Both the Philippines' government and large swathes of the country's civil society are up in arms about the ongoing problem of unwanted waste being shipped in containers to the Asian archipelago's coasts amid an ongoing "garbage war" with Canada that has created a serious diplomatic rift between the two nations.
 
CONTAIN ARCHIVE FOOTAGE.
 
Keywords: efe,epa,philippines,waste