THE Bureau of Customs (BoC) will ship back to South Korea next week tons of hazardous garbage that were illegally discharged at the Mindanao Container Port (MCT) in Togoloan, Misamis Oriental on the pretext that the waste shipment were recyclable plastic synthetic flakes.

Cagayan de Oro (CDO) Collector Floro Calixihan on Wednesday said the decision to return the trash on January 9 was arrived at in coordination with Sunyoung Kim, Embassy of South Korea’s minister counsellor.

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