in front of the cameras coca-cola c.e.o. promises a world without waste. rods behind the scenes the american company is doing everything in its power to eschew any alternatives to plastic like the return bottle i did obviously feel. after months of negotiations with the american multinational we have a meeting at the headquarters of coca-cola france for an interview and. it's a message we don't love so well. when i live to see. how polite and when welcome. and of everything we've been doing to walk you through the body it seems we have not yet won that trust. question really is a short little problem with everything drawing enough back up exterior action for children. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has travelled from the

united states to on so all questions well he has worked for coca-cola for twenty one years he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french speaker. middle seat on the long ones that really doesn't thanks hop on over. there either an odd off that goes off i read so i interview is done in french. book i could ask a little sample. some dish say all digital is convulse except those human behavior . i think gets me to what they. suck so long about a. week. because they perceive it. don't it's going to go on and they claim they can in the secular. use a a c. new. dentistry alley. who.

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vast there. before judging the actions let's take a little trip. unforgettable. 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 hoops alongside reginald white wolves and in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so offer a while you was stopped noticing it. the good 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's what is going on behind these walls inside one of the four coca-cola

factories and zinnia. 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 of found one of the numerous brands inside the coca-cola group. everything is automated and the equipment is brand new the bottles of filled behind this window.

because i got by. two thirds. to sit down didn't put the book book or two in the lawn well i've been. eighty six thousand three hundred and forty bottles in two and a half hours that a lot of plastic we did the calculations that ten bottles a second and that's in the oh mom production line in one of the factories in the country. five years ago this factory only fabricated glass bottles but on the day of all visit the production line for glass bottles is almost at a complete standstill. because they want to go the extra week apart from plastic g.b.u. while you are doing it but the fridge apart from those who are defending your move

into so flustered to get that done so far so good to look good. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottle to kill the very time of the book. but for me i don't care about the guitar. only cares if course. what alan 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 everyone know take care of the business bus pick to fill the political bus to go see a difference in the cycle. now that our factory visit is finished we can find they show you the wonders of the ghetto tanzania. and forgettable town that only.

here are the real results of coca cola's famous recycling business and just by looking at the waste collect as we were told about it's clear that the recycling business is fast and foremost a potty economy. back. during the great depression which old mr remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively and day but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solid doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles

according to no on chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite several. 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 chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. is fifty years old and has three children that she is raising by herself. to feed half hour. she collects plastic on the beach.

but not the best a half hour south of her going to clamber over how to stop the little talk and to play when you get off the last one ball or too lazy to notice a good enough for a bit like the mexican you know your mil i don't know if. evidentially sunny is also leaving its mark in tanzania. by working eight hours a day much i can collect up to twenty kilos of bottles at two hundred fifty shillings a keynote that's ten cents she earns less than two million rows and that's on a good day. someone is home with them and they are going after money when i will buy the reason

i asked to get to she did this about acumen and that was only to effect in this year because yep i'm of the twelve and i need to sell as a citizen but it would seem they are getting there because the money and i need to conduct this are going to come up. why the price is down the national that it was in the country and. too much 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 largest ship 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. are. bad enough to fall gonna get some ice and that was why i got my he's going to. lose up to unions who are his and i pinned. down you ought to know that ben does his job but with gordon i was a tough. you know joe you know what. you know. 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 what i did and then get on and go. by asking my name is i am a lawyer zero zero yeah. model moon has already

spent two years rifling through waste in such a plastic that's more than enough to know that there is only one move to the recycling business here i'll need the strongest to make it. can all go where it really started all about. the next joke i don't buy is no god for noah i'd rather that probably are more than just about no not at all. it's time to clean the windscreen and head elsewhere. we go to to 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 plastic bottles this one is the largest in the country. before 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 kilograms 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. yeah but actually it was our. enemy let me. go. back. and. talk and tell it in the sound. of your call that's likely. 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 a large 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 what the side manager is about to explain to us. yesterday when i was working and asking for collectors it's only surprise when a few months ago the way down the wise saying that the one tool by this time was told. to incent them back in the east bank ready to explode because does not know if you know my kid so what did you do when you couldn't export to china oh i keep on buying we buy and we buy you but you see the money thing this is because you couldn't sell to china 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 in porting used plastic from january twenty eighth. this decision to the collapse at the recycled plastic market or precarious

business and an economy that rests entirely on the backs of the most vulnerable. back at the coca-cola headquarters we speak to michael goldsman the vice president of the company again. truth it will take it because it messed up the u.s. . it says. so. there's no doubt does that mean we don't. have a fake us because if you. say the measure. they say just. care. you know as

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that post i say that i'm packed cowboy on. mate yeah days if in a fast you don't say it will suck you full metal plus the stem point is there 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 circular economy is very far away to conclude our investigation a single statistic will suffice during the length of this film nearly thirteen million bottles of plastic left been sold by the coca-cola group throughout the world.

in the. child's seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any gold yet to shape out this day to come to educate and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground. thank. you both they aquatic. for you. on the fourth and i don't

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