Korean Waste in Mindanao

Children search for plastics and metal they can sell to junk shops from garbage originally from South Korea illegally shipped to the Philippines left at the facility of Verde Soko in Sitio Buguac, Barangay Santa Cruz in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental.

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Unique identifier: GP0STUJY0

Type: Image

Shoot date: 24/01/2020

Locations: Asia, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia

Credit line: © Manman Dejeto / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Repatriation of South Korean Waste from Philippines

At the jubilant “return to sender” ceremony held at the Mindanao International Container Terminal, representatives from environmental groups joined with the Bureau of Customs-Region 10 Port Collector John Simon and other public officials in celebrating the re-export of the first 60 container vans of contaminated plastic waste from South Korea in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental where more than 5,000 tons of such wastes have been sitting since 2018.

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