CUSTOMS Commissioner Rey Guerrero ordered an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the entry into the country of 5,000 tons of garbage from South Korea.

Guerrero said that the 51 containers of waste material, which passed through the Mindanao International Container Terminal (MICT), has no permit from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and was found to contain hazardous materials and thus considered illegal.

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