Interagency meeting set on alleged US e-waste shipments to Subic

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — Government agencies and environmental stakeholders are set to hold an interagency meeting on Monday to discuss allegations that hundreds of containers of electronic waste (e-waste) from the United States (US) were shipped to this freeport.

The meeting, to be held at the Bureau of Customs (BOC) main office, will bring together representatives from the BOC, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources–Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB), and several nongovernmental organizations.

READ: Groups claim 234 containers of suspected US e-waste reached Subic

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In a statement issued Sunday, the BOC said the meeting would tackle the DENR-EMB’s official findings, if already available, and present them to the invited stakeholders.

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The meeting follows a joint inspection conducted on July 1 by the DENR-EMB, BOC, and SBMA at nine recycling companies operating inside the freeport.

The inspection and the interagency meeting come after the Task Force Against Illegal E-Waste Imports to the Philippines, a coalition campaigning against the alleged entry of foreign e-waste into the country, claimed that at least 234 containers of suspected e-waste and one container of plastic waste from the United States have entered the Subic Bay Freeport since March./coa

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