remotest coolness and not free of it, especially single use plastics onto manufacturers responsible for where they're. ringback products and up we went. ringback to find answers with you probably recognize at least some of these products they made by europe's biggest food manufacturers. these companies all seem really concerned about plastic waste, with a lot of plastic pollution in the environment. and the uncomfortable truth is that some of it has got our name on it. 8000000 tons of plastic waste end up in the ocean. each year. we are committed to enhancing the sustainability of, uh, packaging, and off if it really will be in 5th anyway. but many of these companies also consistently rank among the well the worst, plastics polluters, the coca cola company. who never miss lee bay are the key

drivers of our massive plastics. problem of the 350000000 tons of plastic waste. the wall produced in 2019 only an estimate as 9 percent actually got recycled. much more it gets released into the environment poisoning ocean's soil and even the air we breathe. so we wondered when companies promised to cook their plastic waste? do they actually deliver? take the french food giant unknown, for example, is best known for dairy products, but it is also one of the world's biggest bottled water companies. with brands including avian, my zone and indonesian aqua, back in 2009 done on promised to use 20 to 30 percent recycled p t plastic in its water bottles by 2011. but they failed. you'd never know it though, by 2014, that on, on the website said this, the goal is to achieve a rate of 25 percent recycled p t by 2020. so the company just delayed,

as promised by almost a decade. but globally done on water still used only 19.80 percent recycle p t and 20242025. they now have yet another new goal and committed by 2025 to 100 percent recycle. and for all grants in europe and 50 percent after dragging its promises out for over a decade, dunham has at least made some progress. other companies are even further away from their own commitments. nationally only used 5 percent recycle p t in 2020 coca cola european branch was 9 percent and italian ferrero who promised to get to 50 percent by 2025. only stop releasing any such bottles in 2021. so what about the promises that weren't shaped? some of them are genuinely positive steps, but others seem more like marketing ploys than long term improvements. like just campaign, belgium brewery, i'm a bush in this company behind beers like american budweiser corona and dex. in 2017

. they decided to tackle ocean plastic, even got some famous actors on board. the collaboration with highlight, i think, is a very innovative and smart way to step toward cleaning up there. oh, sure. hold on. i believe one of the brands that is more connected to the ocean company proudly announced that it had over delivered on the commitment and had organized $214.00 beach. but they were all just one time cleanups delivering no long term protection. it also sold some sunglasses, made from recycled ocean plastic and then declared the success plastic that actually been my colleague, kyle made a whole video about the challenges of recycling ocean plastic and larissa cappello policy campaign. on the n g o 0 in europe has this to say, yes. so basically no, have any sou if that because this companies are doing this beach

pretending up includes that they are now actually, they are the ones they're are putting all of these packaging material. the waste at the beach is instead, the way the priority should be to reduce plastic waste at the source. but when we looked at what companies actually promised, we found out of almost $100.00 sledges only wanted 5, even aim to reduce the amount of plastic used in packaging. and most of those pledges are still in the future. it was far more popular to promise that packaging would be made recyclable. but even if packaging is recyclable, in theory, without infrastructure to collect untreated, it will not be recycled in practice never. so capella says instead materials might end up being incinerated, put in landfills or even worse, left to lit up, the environment, promising to use already recycle plastics like that on with water bottles is a much better way. but companies take the easy road there. most of these are specifically about p e t. p is used for bottles,

but also for other packaging and even in textiles. it's also by far the easiest type of plastic to recycle. over the past decade, more and more brands have launched bottles made sometimes entirely from recycle p t . but only 17 percent of all plastic packaging is made of p t. the remaining 83 percent are much harder to recycle plastics like polypropylene l d, p or h d p, or a combination of many materials from those caps and rapid from the beginning. those are notoriously hard to recycle even if they are collected mostly on the downside fall into low grade products like cheap construction material. meaning, but companies often highlight the easiest material to recycle, instead of mentioning the mountains of absolutely not respect, little waste they produce around the world. so where do we start the change? some initiatives are trying to work on transparency 1st. for example, the element out the foundation companies consign up to the global commitment program with their voluntary pledges around plastic packaging foundation,

then collecting commitments and trucks that progress companies are hiding behind the commitments and not just doing the changes that they would need to do. and i'm a guide to sunday, she doesn't really have a stick, you know, they have their kara, what happens is companies lead. what happens is the company does not want to reveal the data. they don't keep them. so what needs to happen instead? good question. i would say that was really to change the behavior of the company in europe in legislation. the european union has now recently followed suit and passed some bishop plastic legislation as well under the single use plastics. directive disposable items such as plastic bags, category, and straws, cannot be distributed within new markets anymore. and the directive also includes targets for recycled plastics. by 2025 p. t bottles need to have at least 25

percent recycled content. and by 2030. this target will be raised to 30 percent and change needs to happen. and in each step and fast global plastics production is still growing and is forecast almost triple in the next few decades. in order to even slowly increase the world needs much better recycling systems and strict regulations. the data shows that the voluntary commitments are not enough. companies only change the tactics when pressured through legislation, public accountability, and consumer demand. and we'll check back in 2025. when companies have to deliver on the next set of plastics promises, some of them will even be mandatory, at least within the you want price. so we prepared to pay for progress for prosperity and economic growth. industrialization has caused huge environmental problems including climate change. and yet, despite knowing this, we still lived by the same motto,

economy before nature. in the 1950s that she lay in government set up 5 so called of sacrifice zones to promote industrialization in them, they built coal fired power plants, oil refineries, and copper smelters cement to factories and ports environmental regulations when non existent until the 19 ninety's. and they remain lax to day, more than 200000 people are affected in the bay of porch and carven northwest at the capitol santiago people are determined to change things with legal alova through no one did anything about the toxic fuse castiano labo sings or about how they made the children fainter? no one did anything. oh, no, hear me. so no audio. he is one of the last fishermen in put on covey,

a small coastal town in central chile. he tells us the see here is polluted, which studies have also confirmed. but the sea is, is only source of income. today's catches meagre one, sierra a species of mackerel that regularly migrates along the coast. hosting yonder lago says it's probably not contaminated with toxic heavy metals. unlike fish that stay in the bay, all we're route are familiar with, but we used to eat the fish here. we may good of each i already of all will level, but we don't any more because we know it makes you sick reward. okay, variable killer, whatever water you, lots of people have cancer level of than the reason for that lies the outskirts of pushin covey. roughly 500 hector industrial complex right on the coast . the coal, oil, chemical and copper industries have moved in, lived here by the scant environmental regulations for decades, waste,

water and gas emissions have been spilling into the sea and air, day and night. and with the approval from the government, which made kin toto put on covey into his sacrifice zone. for over 50 years, industry and economic progress have been prioritized over everything else, including residence and the environment. despite this areas unique to logical value says but 3 see up in eunice. i don't recommend the way this is a bone fragment you can tell by the color. it must be from a marine mammal. my, me photo marino. the geologist is fighting for the area to be recognized and protected later, but there they this place tells the story of earth went on, but not just a future caffeine. what i'm coming and anyway these g o sites are of international importance because the layers of rock behind us reveal part of the history has been

a guy with enough. went on, but they're like bella bimmer. there are other examples away from the coastline. i go, well in will, this is the fragment of a whale ramp. there are also fossils of dolphins, sharks. a prehistoric sloth and deposits of snails, clans, and other invertebrates, the layers of rock alike an open history book. that's why patricia opinion is and her colleagues from the n g o car to cover our fighting to make this unesco deer park. welcome on again. we'll amberley italy meant the gala good one that would give the reach an international cio, scientific standing, nasa, they develop or theory. this idea was born within the community itself, which unesco like only that community that they were gone beyond been done. but people here want environmental change and projects to promote more sustainability

or now also lithography. you're going to yemen. the day want the area to be defined by industry as a sacrifice own or the full. so feel good to go full. so bra yet docile central, but our political help to protect the town from devastation and help it to be revitalized when i, when i pulled my record up, patricia opinion is once a fundamental overhaul of the regions image. it's your part that attract tourists. she feels that's the only way to get the state to monitor industrial emissions. chili's current government has promised it will try to close one of the factories and prevent any further expansion of the industrial facilities. for the 1st time, environmental protection is top of the agenda. is compromise soil in the government of president boric is committed to ending the sacrifice zone and transforming it

into an ecological restorations on that. i would assume that we've already made great strides towards this goal. and the 1st 7 months of government will, you know, as who i will die. in 2023. we plan to monitor harmful pollutants more stringently inching terror pulling from covey and anywhere else in the country, no different the value of it by communities here are still waiting for real improvements. air pollution levels are still extremely high and children in the region are suffering. but teacher opinion is, takes local school children on field trips to show them places in the sacrifice zones that are worth protecting. happy to day, she's with children and teachers from an elementary school there, climbing a mountain to an abandoned mind, to analyze the minerals. i met with that. it is a stone with copper and cords. yes. it's very beautiful. he does come with the beard that you call me. why this stone looks, my courts in

a different color. you believe it, david? i can see green or gold komodo, but that he see opinion is his greatest wish is to open the children's eyes to the ecological and geological treasures of kin ted o, pushin covey, info columbia, but an all retina. yeah, i asked him and i will not exon well, you know, i, what if, if the earth by the money this is your heritage and you're the ones you must protect it somehow that we're here to pass on everything we know so that you can protect it in the future for the human hulu, they hope that the decades of environmental destruction will finally come to an end here and across all the sacrifice zones. in chile, sea levels are rising and rising in the 20th century by around $1.00 millimeters

per year. a total of about 15 centimeters. now they're rising by almost 3 times as much due to melting polar ice and expanding warm as see waters for many of the world's coastal dwellers. the big, urgent question is, what can we do when the water comes? this is a home for us. this is where we have been burned. we have run out. there's no police like this world as a community. we're not ready to move as being fishing. but when i started on to the fisherman was a toy full time longer we're in the now very dangerous place right now. i mean, it's on the point where people are moving away because of this relation

in you are leaving on a water. is that the home life? so even my name is mario my stamp. i'm a resident of the community of mancha river. we started seeing the issue with the erosion on the course thing. what hurts me more about this war situation. even after we love to have a, you know, pieces of property, we left the football field for the last for mary alba. my grandma and my grandfather, no washed or did you see a guy that really hurt we have been doing our best to try and keep what we have. i don't want to see any mammograms going to be c, as

a lot of my families are still there. my sister and cousin, good friends, here, currently to madison. move my mom is, well, she's the reason i decided to become a teacher. well everybody around here, you know, where really come your members so it's really personal about why i decided to get on the water shit and see what i can do. i see the bunker, well, what i said, i thought it was merely for i'm to i just what we're seeing with the erosion on the course that now the community we started seeing was 10 years on a river and we didn't see the kind of sun that used to come out before

to replenish what is last natalie we have no beach know what it was. it was really nice having a beat. you can walk around and enjoy it and you know and thing my god is to try and see what they can do to improve the better manage then what we have because is easier. the money is what you have than to restore what you loss. so i had to get involved with the wash it association, been 27 p and we were able to get

a mentor 1st project. re pilot closed the malays ish on voicemails, and yet you ah, the watershed data g o. 2 in project for the fall from dea tubes in front of the village. oh, basically that was i like ga stabilisation, mental and tool as they split some of the villagers were at risk of losing their home. the g f. small grants program provides financial on technical resources to civil society organizations. to implement commended driven action for global i was able to nurture further relationships with the residents of monk river,

including understanding their life and their concerns with their rosure and the loss of forms. the loss of their livelihoods and loss of biodiversity. the degradation of watershed in general, is at an alarming rate being degraded. for me, that is actually concerning what i see with the early hand. i would hope that they can stabilize it, put something on. no, rob signed to stabilize the the, the beats went to stabilize, then they, they can do other projects to was on the sun was coming inside the don't. there is an iran draw low, it's at a buck. so what happened? the guys from rocks that government give us some more, there is on smaller on and they put them just in we bought on bought and throw them in front to help the middle back a little bit at

a sun. so we know that the movers would work bunker village is one of those coastal communities that we prioritize. the coastal fishing community located south eastern part of police, a small real amenities living in harmony with nature. mac river is not responsible for the climate crisis, yet. they are the ones that are suffering, greatest loss and damage. what we need is climate justice. i want to get mom to have our buck on them. okay. they, this is a beautiful place. they're not our resources here for us to not have some issues with them. we can't exist if we can address what we're seeing mom care about going to be here for another 100 years. mm

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