The Great Canada Philippines Diplomatic Garbage Dispute of 2019 Seems Almost Over

Environmental activists rally outside the Philippine Senate in Manila to demand that scores of containers filled with household rubbish be shipped back to Canada and to push for the ratification of the Basel Ban Amendment which prohibits the export of hazardous waste from developed to developing countries ,on Sept. 9, 2015. Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images

OTTAWA—Canada’s garbage is coming home from the Philippines.

Canada has made a formal offer to have more than six dozen containers of Canadian household trash returned to the Port of Vancouver nearly six years after it was sent to Manila labelled incorrectly as plastics for recycling.