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plastic was. written it was a twin what you call. this is set. but there for more. don't go on the. song. don't plan to be. on the move don't.
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read this book and we. fight back fight back savages. promising. increased recycling and collection targets. is objective. to. explain. dead to do me says he. knew that. strategy a that would never.
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we. don't aim. for a deposit system. system. book. says
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. you. know pretty. good. you're a. kid. on a cold thank you. if you. before judging the actions let's take
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a little trip. we travel to tanzania a country in east africa known for its incredible landscapes unspoiled beaches and the best safaris in africa. however what this promotional film does not specify is that tanzania is also the incredible land of coca-cola. here everyone waits for red and white buses longside reginald white wolf and in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so off there a while you was stopped noticing it. the good
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news is that in this country you can still find coke bottles made out of reusable glass but this will soon be over. what the american company is doing in tanzania what it did in the united states fifty years ago replacing the glass bottles with plastic ones. and that is what is going on behind these walls inside one of the poor coca-cola factories in tanzania. all guide is james mother the manager of the new production line a production line which only makes plastic bottles today they're producing bottles
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of. everything is automated and the equipment is brand new the bottles of filth behind this window. by. the six thousand three hundred that bought the book were two very long oh i've been out of the. eighty six thousand three hundred and forty bottles in two and a half hours that's a lot of plastic we did the calculations that ten bottles a second and that's only on mom production line in one of the factories in the
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country. five years ago this factory only fabricated glass bottles but on the day of our visit the production line for glass bottles is almost at a complete stand. i don't. suppose they want to go that secure way apart from plastic g.b.u. while you are doing it but the trick apart from those who are different you do in terms of prosthetics that in terms of us it's good to look so good i'm going to . the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you grasp what of the blue to kill the very time of the book got a full minute i don't care about the guitar i only care if bush said. what our guide is trying to say is that plastic doesn't seem to be a problem for the environment in tanzania so it's come back to business to see
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everyone now take care of their business bust fictive so he clicked both of us to. defend being the cycle. now that our factory visit is finished we can find a show you the wonders of the ghetto tanzania to build a town that we need. here are the real results of coca cola's famous recycling business and just by looking at the waste collectors we were told about it's clear that the recycling business is first and foremost a poverty economy. but saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.
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has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent in the world market. thirty percent some with four hundred five hundred three first second first second and fifth when rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i it does mark but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know for the myth the one and only boom. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed. and it wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there
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was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shape by the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy at tax solo debt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to no i'm chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for . that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. in a world big part of the new law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to
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dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's. for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. is fifty years old and has three children that she is raising by herself. to feed her family she collects plastic on the beach.
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but no the best a half hour south of perth is going to clamber over help yourself to look and play when you are. a little too lazy to notice a good enough for both of us like the mexican you know your mil i don't have. evidentially does sanny is also leaving its mark in tanzania. by working eight hours a day much i can collect up to twenty kilos or bottles at two hundred fifty shillings a keynote that's ten cents she earns less than two years and that's on a good day. and that limits the money you only going to hear anything after morning when i will buy the reason i asked to get to see that this couple of the motel younger than us only affecting this year because you have come in to albany to sell as it is in but
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it would seem they are getting there because of money and i need to be on the ships are going to come up. why the price is down the national visitor was in the country and. to lot. plastic and too many people like mata who collect empty bottles just to scrape by. to bear witness to the most unsustainable side of this savage recycling economy we head to the longest tape in the land dar es salaam the economic capital of the country. every time a truck arrives to unload waste it's the same friends they.
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are negative about. a bad metaphor gonna get the mice that i was i why you guys going on. the actual bought new stuff unions orders and i pinned . down you know it's going to depend as it's true but with your board and i was it off. you national guard. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waste the genuine but tell me what you got an actual. we did to one of us and down when i did an engine and. by asking my name i am a lawyer zero to us here. at h. the model mu has already spent two years rifling through waste in such
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a plastic that's more than enough to know that there is only one move to the recycling business here only the strongest to make it. can all go where it works i don't doubt. i'll make sure that i'm by rolling out the door no mouth. more than just about the door and out through alford although. it's time to clean the windscreen and head elsewhere. we go to the people who dictate the neuron the new market for recycled plastic. we find them in the suburbs of dar es salaam. these are the companies who buy
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plastic bottles this one is the largest in the country. people coming here we never would have been magine filming anything quite like this . a mountain of empty plastic bottles that you have to climb with seventy kilo grams on your head. at first we are almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and going of climbers all smaller than their loads. but then we talk to the workers.
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yeah but it was sad. that in the same way. actually our. enemy. not tonight. and i'm. not going to have it in the sound. neville court that's looking. at the foot of the mountain these workers begin their final sorting session they put the colored bottles and plastic bags to one side. they put the clear bottles into launch bags these bottles then go through these machines to be reduced to small pieces before they can be recycled. and. until very recently the company exported this plastic to china the largest buyer of recycled plastic in the world this is the side manager is about to explain to us.
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yesterday when i was working and asking for collectors ten years it's only the price went down a few months ago the way down the wise saying that be my tool by this time was told . in september in the east i live ready to explode because does not know if you know my kid so what did you do when you couldn't export to china all i keep on buying we buy and we buy you but you see the money thing this is because you couldn't sense of time oh yeah so i can relate. in twenty seventeen china announced that it no longer wanted to be the world's largest rubbish bin and that they would stop importing used plastic from january twenty eighth. this decision to the collapse that rests entirely on the backs of the most vulnerable.
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back at the coca-cola headquarters we speak to michael goldsman the vice president of the company again. true it will take it because it must be you or not tony moore . says. if it's. true that. there's i don't doesn't mean we don't. we discover as you have a fake of reserve if you. says the measure. you know as you would expect.
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economy circular economy. ticket good to. see. i don't see. clearly.
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is only more time you do the plastic maze. same. notebook a invaluable tool. in valor an appraiser v. . v. . and. while the. best your own do sort of plastique it all may on class rican system for you. do you. suppose on. this do you really on
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a on trend. towards any. metal and plastic members all of the systems. your own. clique you put are you teasing. new or. unique. government to do plastic. it's a fact cowboy on. mate yeah days if in a fast you don't say pull thank you for methadone plus this template is your i collect the money with coca-cola you can still taste the feeling in plastic bottles zero waste does not mean zero plastic and the promise of a succulent economy is very far away to conclude our investigation
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a single statistic would suffice during the length of this film nearly thirteen million bottles of plastic left being sold by the coca-cola group throughout the world. there was no to trade or labor is that there's an environmental standards in the original enough that the five years ago were kicked out because relations were more purity economy but now the religion is very very close intertwined and so i think it's ok to have
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a new treaty and you negotiation. think or up a time off and someone. thought they are quite there cost more to do on their own you're going to. push to focus on it on the fourth and out of the still think i don't want to discuss the one. thing i thought it was a couple that i want to show one thing you just got. i mean. the christmas spirit the ok sign. was you know full well for you up next i think you know how to. save us mission to help you want to kill for fun and help us get on faith nothing nothing nothing wrong but somehow that in a way out of fear of looking ahead what if i don't want to handle this little uniting basically.
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tatters financial survival guide i don't find any i prize on a futures. face almost friday as of last summer buying from the future trucker watch kaiser. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've measured us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families he did. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old rich eight point six percent employed market most thirty percent some with four hundred five hundred three first circuit first second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember one one business showed you know ford the mid one and
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only boom but. just. looking around. for the biggest. part of it i know. he breaks. down. further debate and division right across europe over the fate of children of islamic state fighters as the baby of a bride dies in
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a syrian refugee camp after the woman's u.k. citizenship was revoked. which is citizen the baby who died and died because our government didn't do anything to bring that child back to the u.k. . we did the right thing he put the safety of this country first and foremost. human rights watch accuses a rocky and kurdish authorities of routinely torturing youngsters suspect of having links to islamic state.

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