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tv   Documentary  RT  March 17, 2019 1:30pm-2:01pm EDT

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crane economy circular don't. know. a thing move. the l u u t's. who play for katie to take. their kid out of the plastic. may. day. fare on a. didn't really. only to get it. done it was a. sit. those objectives. appear from.
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the. song. don't plan to be. on the move don't get. me. on the read this book you know we. fight back fight back savages. promising.
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increased recycling and collection targets. is objective. the dead to do me says. strategy a that would never. good yes. please don't.
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say yes. they're. easy. says. so but. we.
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don't aim. for a deposit system. system. book. may . says. you. know pretty. good. you're off a.
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if you. there. before judging the actions let's take 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.
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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 who long side read and white wool 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 news is that in this country you can still find coke bottles made out of reusable glass but this. what the american company is doing in tanzania what it did in the united states fifty
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years ago replacing the glass bottles with plastic ones. and that 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 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.
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recalled occupied by. a. third. of the six thousand three hundred that bought the book but returned in the long haul 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 country. five years ago this factory only fabricated glass bottles but on the day. evolve visit the production line for glass bottles is almost at a complete standstill. because they want
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to go that their way apart from plastic other g.b.u. while you are. doing it but the trick apart from those two our every move in terms of prosthetics that in terms of us it's good to look good for. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially a money. glass bottle to kill off the very top of the box. already i don't care about the guitar. only cares if. 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 in business to see everyone now take care of the business perspective so he clicked both of us to the source that it departs in the cycle. now that our factory visit is finished we can find a show you the wonders of the forgettable tanzania. and
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for gettable town the only. 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. welcome to maximize their financial survival guide. looking forward to the year that's without. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain delegates you watched as a report. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand pilings.
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to china judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of. a russian w.b. a champion. and a russian mob stuff. show you how. long the crimea bridge was built. witnessed the construction moving you need to transport. that will help the cause of crimea. lost most of those you know won't go for more snow year quite a bit by trill.
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is fifty years old and has three children that she is raising by herself just. to feed her family she collects plastic on the beach. but no the best i have a car going to clamber copus up the little cousin to 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 sonny 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 year olds and that's on
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a good day. to miss someone you don't want them in there i mean after morning when i would buy the reason i asked to up we decided this couple of acumen and that was going to affect him this year because yep i'm going to albany. because he thought it would seem fair to them because i'm an author and i need to be on the ships are going to come up. why the price is down the national visitor wasn't up on current. too much plastic and too many people like mata who collect empty bottles just to scrape by.
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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 frenzy. they get your mouth. about not a fool gonna order some ice. was that why you guys going to. the actual new stuff unions originate then what do we i yell when down you know it's going to depend as it's true but with gordon i was it tough. you know you're going to. bury you national guard gasoline. and so they resort to using their batons to dig
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through other people's waste the genuine but only when you've got an actual. we determined honest and down know what i did and then get on and go work on my own of them by asking my name imo you zero down to us here. at h. the model mu has already spent two years rifling through waste in search of plastic that's more than enough to know that there is only one move to the recycling business here only the strongest make it. can all go where it resides no doubt. the next joke i know me out god or no must i dreaded that romney or more accurately about the no not true if i don't go. it's time to clean the windscreen and head elsewhere.
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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 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 kilo grams on your head.
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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 i was saying. that in the semi. and i. thought this was the sound of slaughter much less fuel costs like limits. 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 pads these bottles then go through these machines to be
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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. yesterday when i was working and asking for collectors it's only the price when a few months ago the way down the wise saying that be my tool by this time was told . to get them back in the east. radically. because does not you know my kid so what did you do when you couldn't export to china all that people buy and live by that you see the money thing this is because you couldn't sense of time oh yes so it accumulates. in twenty
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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. fifth to the collapse of the recycled plastic market our precarious business and an economy that rests entirely on the bats at the most vulnerable. back at the coca-cola headquarters we speak to michael goldsman the vice president of the company again. true it will take it because the rest of you will or not tony . i don't see it will create. there's no doubt does that mean we don't. we have a fake is because you have
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a view. says the measure. is used tomorrow is on point i care. very strategy. you know as you would expect this. day. as it. really. doesn't need the misa. short of plastic office which will. the. design continue on for two days on by large. to see. the do those he was at the. matter. city not. see their responsibility to metal and plastic system going called fairmount
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a nose will be. distributing and it. goes audrey only on to under the fair. if it was a procedural plastic sole. standard collectibility question for us. the economy circular economy. critical good. business.
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day. see. clearly. this. city going to need. if. there.
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good ease on this one depressed if you know small poor korean system a. good ski day. beauty. no. t.s.a. . not even play. is only more time you do the plastic maze. same source. note a valuable tool. in valor i played a v. . v. . and.
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do sort of plastique it all may on class region system for you a problem. do you. suppose on that i don't. really on a own tend to. need. it to suit me for a four veneer doesn't know what i mean plaster the terror. class. after a. week
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of government plastic. they packed. mate yeah days if in a fast day don't. trust them pointers i collect them all 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. during the length of this film nearly thirteen million bottles of plastic been sold by the coca-cola group throughout the wound.
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fishing to go like you want to go home for fun and you'll get on but nothing nothing nothing i'm not like in a way out of your fucking head so what if i don't want to kill a little can i do you so. i do think the numbers mean something they've matter to us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be old rich eight point six percent world market rose thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and if we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only
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always struggle school again you always have problems but you are going to focus a lot it's the most ubiquitous going out there most police departments use it almost every stores in the school that they could get their hands on economies in twenty four hours. really teaching these kids both racism about police brutality taking pride in them being all these kids are a part of history. the
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stories that shaped the week here and i wanted to nashville new zealand mourns the fifty people killed in a terrorist attack on two mosques and a stray in nashville is being charged with murder in connection with the much shootings. bloodiest of the monument much money and infinitely more road oh my god it's going to happen to me no it was funny believe it was and everybody just stunning. two weeks of political stalemate. from europe.

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