tv Documentary RT May 6, 2019 6:30pm-7:01pm EDT
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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 so far is 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 offer
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a while. 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 is what is going on behind these walls inside one of the poor coca-cola factories in tanzania. all guide is james model 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 phantom 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. by a. very. different style than three hundred in the book return 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
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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 to go the sicko way apart from plastic allowed to be you while you are doing it but the trick apart from those who are differently roof in terms of prosthetics that terms of us it's good to look good for. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottles they are sticky off of a time of the body got multiple moves i don't care about the guitar i only care if bush and. what our guide is trying to say is that plastic doesn't seem to be
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a problem for the environment in tanzania so it's come back to business to everyone now take care of the business perspective so he collects all those plastic. deposits in being the cycle. now that our factory visit is finished we can finally show you the wonders of the ghetto tanzania. unforgettable town that 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. during
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the great depression which you all must remember that it was. most of my family were employed. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively. but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hope. there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer election manufacture consent and other principles according to. one set of rules for the rich. that's what happens when you put her into the. roof will switch
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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. what is it called in decline is magic and a new type of digital currency. digital scarcity chancellor. second for a bank that's called the genesis block for reasons to coin a civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial destiny it's just a new way of coming to consensus it's a game changer in the human history of this columbus discovering a new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo eleven landing. to the max and stacey. in
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twenty four to you know bloody revolution to the demonstration going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution. always spontaneous or is it just always here got to implement your list put a pretty good clue in the new bill is that i new spelling needed or the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these another goal that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. i thought.
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i. was. is fifty years old and has three children that she is raising by herself. to feed her family she collects plastic on the beach. but the best i have our support to want to plan for how to start for our little cousins to play when you have done. so. before you know what does a bit like the mexican you know your mil i don't have.
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evidentially 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 kino that's ten cents she earns less than two million records and that's on a good day. to miss someone you don't want them and they're not going after money when i would buy the reason i asked to help you to see to this about a month to the young and that i might do for a second this year because yep i'm in the twelve and i need to sell as a because you bought it but still they are getting there because the money and i need to conduct this are gonna come up. why the price is down thank you not sure of the deposit of any trend. too much plastic and too many people like mata who
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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 a. beggar get him out. but not a fool gonna order some ice was that while you come by he's going to. the actual
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book new stuff unions who are his name tend to with our yeoman down you know it's going to depend as to what was your board and i was a tough. bird. you know as you got gasoline. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waste. but only when you've got an actual well we did you're one of us and when i didn't get an ngo. by asking my name is i am a lawyer zero zero. at h. the 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 moved to the recycling business here only the strongest make it. can all go where it resides. so much yorkers are by no means yes or no over. there were probably are more than
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just about the door and out. it's time to clean the windscreen and head elsewhere. we go to meet 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.
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before coming here we never would have been madge and filming anything quite like this. a mountain of empty plastic bottles that you have to climb with seventy eight kilograms on your head. at first will almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and going of climbers all smooth and then loads. but then we're told to. get out by actor was that. getting to me. you know. enemy number one. and i'm. not going to
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have it in the sun welcome it's neville court that's next. 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. yesterday when i was working and asking for collectors tell you about this on the price went down a few months ago the way down the wise saying that the night to buy this one was told. to sit in the east bank live ready to explode because
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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 monday. 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 led to the collapse that the recycled plastic market our 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. so that it will take us because most of you.
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looked up from moods are bastards in the clue which are coconspirators some are going to. be relying on data that is not very well to find like the g.d.p. number of the gross domestic product number is notorious for being very opaque and it doesn't really give a picture that you can draw any minute inclusions from a that's true of almost every number that's produced by the government because it behooves them to control the data because the data controls the algorithms and the indexes.
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the remains of all forty one people killed after a russian plane burst into flames that during an emergency landing in moscow have now been recovered from the crash site a twelve year old girl and the flight attendant who died helping passengers escape the inferno are among the victims. investigators are currently looking at three possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunction and bad weather. we focused on the real politics russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov holds talks with the u.s. secretary of state might calm peo saying he's found no support for any military intervention in venezuela including among the american officials.
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