Orphaned Garbage to Return from Philippines
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The rest of a shipment of garbage that was smuggled to the Philippines last year is expected to return to Korea in the second half of this year.
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An Environment Ministry official discussed with Philippine officials on Mindanao on June 13 how to dispose of the remaining 5,177 tons of trash a recycling company in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province had smuggled to the Philippines last July, a ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
Out of the total of 6,200 tons of plastic waste camouflaged as recycled materials, some 1,200 tons that had been intercepted in a Philippine port were sent back to Korea in March.
The rest sat abandoned on private property but will now be packed up and sent back.