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According to officials, Sri Lanka has returned to the United Kingdom the last containers of garbage the country received in recent years, which are smuggled toxic waste.
Forty-five containers were loaded onto a ship at the port of Colombo bound for the United Kingdom. It is the last of 243 containers that arrived in Sri Lanka with fraudulent shipments between 2017 and 2019.
A local company had actually imported the waste from Great Britain, claiming it wanted to recycle and resell it. But instead of declared old mattresses, rugs or rugs, customs actually found medical waste from hospitals, including human remains. The case caused a scandal.
A union to protect the environment filed a complaint and received that the waste be returned to the sender in Great Britain.
According to Sri Lankan customs, the containers were brought into the country in violation of international law on the transfer of toxic waste.
Several Asian countries, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, have also returned waste containers to their countries of origin, often richer countries, in recent years.
With this watchword: We are not your trash.
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