THE Bureau of Customs (BoC) will ship back to South Korea starting next week more than 5,000 tons of hazardous waste that had been discharged at the Mindanao Container Port (MCT) in Togoloan, Misamis Oriental as these were misdeclared as recyclable plastic synthetic flakes.

Mindanao International Container Terminal (MICT) Customs Co llector John Simon disclosed on Wednesday that the reexportation-exportation would be done in two batches with the first 60 containers scheduled on January 19 and the remaining on February 9.

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