CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY– The Department of Environment and Natutral Resourse – Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) has proposed the implemention of the moratoriom of all sorts of imported garbage coming in the country.
Regional Director of DENR-EMB-10, Reynaldo Digamon, said, the proposal originates from the series of discoveries of imported waste materials from South Korea, Australia and Hongkong, foiled in Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) in the town of Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental.
Recently, Digamon witnessed the historic departure of the electronic waste fromHongkong placed inside the 40 footer container van carried by, the shipper, SICT Nagoya.Digamon confessed that the moratorium of imported waste will not be lifted until the Bureau of Customs (BoC) has laid down specific rules and regulation against receiving imported waste.
After Hongkong’s waste, the bureau will immediately resolve the assorted waste materials from Australia with its consignee, the Holcim Philippines.
