The Philippines has recalled its ambassador and consuls to Canada after the country missed a deadline to take back waste exported to the Southeast Asian nation, Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro L Locsin Jr said on Thursday (May 16).

Axar.az reports citing the New York Times.

"At midnight last night, letters for the recall of our ambassador and consuls to Canada went out. They are expected here in a day or so," said the official in a tweet. "Canada missed the May 15 deadline. And we shall maintain a diminished diplomatic presence in Canada until its garbage is ship bound there."