Canada hires firm to ship back garbage rotting in Philippines

OTTAWA -- Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the Canadian trash that has been rotting in the Philippines for nearly six years will be back on Canadian soil before the end of June. McKenna says the government has awarded a contract to a shipping company, Bollore Logistics Canada, that will return 69 containers filled with household waste and electronic garbage. The containers are what is left of 103 containers shipped by a private Canadian company to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014 and