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Metro Vancouver says its ready to accept and dispose of the approximately 1,500 tonnes of rotting Canadian garbage being shipped back to this country from the Philippines.

The garbage, which has sat in a Manila port for nearly six years after being shipped there from the Port of Vancouver by a private business in 2013 and 2014, will be directed to Metro Vancouver’s waste-to-energy facility in Burnaby when it arrives here sometime this summer.

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Earlier this month, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to “declare war” on Canada over the 103 shipping containers that were falsely labeled as being full of recyclables but found by Filipino customs agents to contain mostly non-recyclable plastics, kitchen garbage and soiled adult diapers.

The containers have been impounded at the Manila International Container Terminal, where they have been declared a biohazard.

Duterte ordered the containers dumped in Canadian waters after Canada missed Duterte’s May 15 deadline to deal with the nearly six-year-old dispute.