OTTAWA—The federal government has issued no permits for Canadian companies to ship trash overseas since regulations changed three years ago—raising questions about how waste is still ending up on the shores of Asian nations.
Canada introduced new regulations in 2016 requiring exporters to get permits to ship waste other countries would consider hazardous, including trash. The changes were the result of the diplomatic dustup with the Philippines over 103 containers of trash that arrived in ports there in 2013 and 2014 wrongly labelled as plastics for recycling.
