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and. in front of the cameras coca-cola c.e.o. promises us a world without waste that's our objective. but behind the scenes the american company is doing everything in its power to eschew any alternatives to plastic like the return bottle i think obviously the shelf. after months of negotiations with the american multinational we have a meeting at the headquarters of coca-cola france for an interview. it's a mess so what else can i live to see. the polite and welcome.

when the public and we don't know if you want to go through the body it seems we have not yet won that trust. question may go in as a short little clock on the move every thought well wait a minute back up and say i should push on john. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has travelled from the united states to onslow questions all he has worked for coca-cola for twenty one is he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french speaker. and they are saying nothing at all was that we knew that i spoke on over. there i didn't od off that apple guy goes off on a week so all interview is done in french. cook i could have. some dish told. i think gets me to day. because they perceive

that. the crane economy circular. a. b l u u t's. would take. their kid out of the plastic. may. day. fare on a. didn't really. think of it. this is sit.

those objectives. appear from. the. don't plan to be. on the move don't. need to be discreet looking on we.

don't. really fight back fight back savages. promising. increased recycling and collection targets. if the collect. the dead to do me says. the. strategy a good nova. is a. good yes.

don't know. if they're. easy. call. them all. says. so but. the collect. the. politicos.

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no pretty. good. you're off. 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. 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 to a while you will stop noticing it. the good news is that in this country you can still find coke bottles made out of grass but this. 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. guts what is going on behind these walls inside one of the four coca-cola factories in tanzania. all guide is james muller 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. apply. to. a different style than the under the pocket book but 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 a second and that's only on one 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 expose it to go way up but from plastic to be the way you are. doing it but the put it up on from those who are defending the roof in film so flustered to set himself up that's good to feel good. about. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially a money. glass bottles who pick you up a bit of time of the book. but a full minute i don't care about the guitar i'm only a kid. and. 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 everyone know take care of the business bus pick to fill the political bus to.

defend the cycle. now the child factory visit is finished we can find and they show you the wonders of the ghetto tanzania. gettable 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. you're relying on data that is not very well to find like g.d.p. number the gross domestic product number is notorious for being very opaque and it

doesn't really good. 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. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go home fields where everything is familiar on the other i want to the new challenge and the fresh perspective and i'm used to surprising us all why not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you think i was going to go. by the way what is it that slider here. 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 is not a plumber told herself a little company to pay when you are. a little too lazy to notice a good enough for both of us like the mexican night your mil in the. evidentially does 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 and. less than two million records and that's on

a good day. to someone he only going to hear again after morning one of the by the reason i asked to get to she did this for about a month to young and that was only two for a second this year because yep i'm going to albany to show as a physician but it would seem they are getting there because i'm on and i need to conduct this are going to come up. why the price is down the national average of us in the country and. too much plastic and too many people like mata who connect 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 a. beggar get him out. but not the full gonna get some ice that the job was a while you come by he's going to. the actual bought new stuff unions or is no pinto it till we are yelled down you know it's kind of the brain does its job but with gordon i was a tough order. you know you're going to. bury you national guard. and so they resort to use. sing their batons to dig through other people's waste. but

only when you've got an actual well we do to one of us and when i didn't mention an ngo. by asking my name is. zero to us here. at h. the model moon 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. could all go where it resides all. the mess yorkers are by no means yes or no over. more than 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. people coming here we never would have been match and 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 will almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and going of climbers who was smaller than their loads. but then we took to the. yeah but back it was an. enemy to me. you know. enemy number one. and i'm. not going to 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 one of the side manager is about to explain to us. yesterday when i was working and asking for collectors then you're bound to tell me your price went down a few months ago the way down the wise saying that be my tool by this time we strolled. in september in the east i don't 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 oh 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 if they would stop importing used plastic from january twentieth. this decision led to the collapse of 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. little ticket because. it says.

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mate. if in a fast. with coca-cola you can still taste the feeling in plastic bottles zero waste does not mean zero plastic and the promise of economy is very far away to conclude our investigation a single statistic. during the length of this film nearly thirteen million bottles of plastic. by the coca-cola group throughout the world.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in it is on all sides very dramatic development only hastily. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to.

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