THE nation must be breathing a sigh of relief that the Canadian government has apparently begun making arrangements to take back, at its own expense, 69 containers of trash shipped from that country into the Philippines in 2013 and 2014. But this resolution of the Canadian trash scandal should not be the end of our efforts to rid the Philippines of other countries’ garbage.

President Rodrigo Duterte had earlier expressed exasperation over the unresolved issue and demanded that Canada remove the waste that has been festering for too long at the port in Manila by May 15.