CUSTOMS BEGIN REPATRIATION ON COURT ORDER

Controversial garbage containers from UK

- KURULU KOOJANA KARIYAKARAWANA

Sri Lanka Customs yesterday began repatriating the first batch of the controversial 242 container loads of garbage to Britain following last week’s Court of Appeal order to reship the consignment with immediate effect.

Customs Additional Director General and Spokesman Sunil Jayaratne told Daily Mirror the Customs Social Protection Unit was handling the operations of repatriating tons of trash back to the UK, from where it was sent.

As a result, the first batch of 20 waste containers were loaded on to a vessel named ‘Texas Triumph’ docked at the Colombo Harbour, which was scheduled to depart last evening (30) and sail directly to the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands on transit to the UK in another vessel.