Waste-Filled Containers Finally Being Shipped Back to Canada From Philippines

Environmentalists march outside the Canadian Embassy in the Philippines May 21, 2019, to demand the Canadian government speed up the removal of several containers of garbage that were shipped to the country in 2013/14. Bullit Marquez/AP/The Canadian Press

The Philippines is finally going to be rid of 69 shipping containers filled with Canadian waste that have caused years of tension between the two countries.

A ship contracted by the Canadian government to bring the waste back was loaded in the Port of Subic, Philippines, Thursday. The MV Bavaria is expected to leave for Canada Friday with an end destination of the Port of Vancouver.