Photo source: nhm.ac.uk By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe UpFront Asian nations, no longer, want to be a plastic dumping ground, of rich nations. It is because there are innumerable rubbish crates, that arrive, at the ports, of the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam, from the West. But, these south-east Asian nations are now vowing to end it, by freeing their seas and lands, that resemble like a giant, clogged gutter, or a place of a toxic wasteland. It brings back the old adage: We made plastic. We depend on it. Now, we are drowning in it. In fact, Rodrigo Duterte, had threatened to suspend diplomatic ties with Canada if the Trudeau government doesn’t take it back. Earlier, the Canadian government did not agree to take back its sixty-nine containers, containing fifteen hundred tonnes of waste that had been expelled to the Philippines, in 2013, and 2014. Duterte had even said that if Canadian government didn’t stop playing petty politics over this issue, ...