SENATOR Francis Escudero on Wednesday said the garbage that came from Canada should be returned to its port of origin at no extra cost for the government.

At the hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources on the country’s waste disposal and management system, Escudero criticized the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for not taking a stronger stance when it asked Canada to take back the 103 containers loaded with garbage that arrived in the country from June 2013 to January 2014.

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