Customs investigates plastic scrap cargo - Manila Standard Today

The Bureau of Customs is looking into the entry of scrap plastic from Canada, which arrived in 50 40-foot container vans in Manila International Container Port.

Deputy commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno said the 891,000-kilo shipment arrived at the Manila North Harbor in July 2013 and consigned to Chronic Plastics based in Valenzuela City.

Nepomuceno identified the shipper as Chronic Inc. of 95 Regency Crescent Whtby, Ontario, Canada.

Customs Deputy Commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno

inspects a shipment of scrap plastic at the Manila

International Container Port on February 10, 2014

that arrived from Canada without clearance from

the Department of Environment and Natural

Resources. DANNY PATA

“Basura ito (Rubbish). Businessmen should know the law.... I have given instruction to look into the criminal aspect of this importation,” he said.

“The thing is, it would cause health problems.”

Nepomuceno cited the government policy of “No importation of hazardous wastes” following the Basel Convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste and their disposal along with Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990.

He said the shipment had no written approval from the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources or his duly authorized representative as required by law.

In 2010, Customs agents seized at the Port of Manila 13 container vans of iron and copper scraps from China on board s/s Uni Glory and consigned to Jowood Industries.

On record, the cargo was declared as mill scales but laboratory analysis by the Philippine Nuclear Institute on the samples indicated black powder compoosed of iron and copper scraps prohibited under the Basel Convention.

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