tv Documentary RT July 5, 2019 10:30am-11:01am EDT
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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 who works alongside red and white wolves and in the playground children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so off there awhile you almost ready 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 all soon be over.
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for the american company is doing in tanzania what it did in the united states 50 years ago replacing the glass bottles with plastic ones. and that is what is going on behind these walls inside one of the 4 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 filth behind
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this window. and this. by. the 3rd. is just to get around it but the book book written in the lawn well i've been. in 86340 bottles in 2 and a half hours that a lot of plastic we did the calculations that 10 bottles a 2nd and that's in the oh mom production line in one of the factories in the country. and. 5 years ago this factory only fabricated glass bottles but on the day of our visit the production line for glass bottles is almost
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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 prick apart from those who are different of you do is still so flustered to that so far so good to see. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottle to kill the very top of the book got rid i don't care about the guitar. only cares if course. 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 the myth that everyone now. oh take care of the business perspective of the politicos will. be respectful
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. now that our factory visit is finished we can finally show you the wonders of the unforgettable tanzania. unforgettable time 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 1st and foremost a poverty economy. if you will not obey the voice of the lord your god to do all these months and. then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. and then the white people is stolen property and must be returned to black people if they get rid of
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whites only problems will go away. every single day. people being tortured to death expression the people in the. white horse will find themselves. pointedly live like kings and queens oh it's all sweat and a lot of. what are you going to have for dinner today we don't have anything i'm asking for a nice little feelings here civil war in south africa never. one good one fredricka why are there any chunk be in the pelt of your hand to get.
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most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest ratings in truth to stand out on the news business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. question. the new foreign policy thing takes all star business challenging foreign policy orthodoxies it is called the quincy institute for responsible state crowd this is not an ordinary think tank it is funded by charles koch and george shore also among others talk about strange bedfellows can
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to feed her family she collects plastic on the beach. but the best a half hour south of perth is going to clamber over healthy stuff to look up and play when you're on a walk. you know before good enough for the both of you like the mexican you know your mil i don't know if. evidentially death sunny is also leaving its mark in tanzania. by working 8 hours a day can collect up to 20 kilos or bottles at 200. 50 shillings a keynote that's $0.10 she earns less than $2000000.00 records and that's on a good day. for. him as someone who is only going to hear him after money when i will buy the
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reason i asked to be to she did this about a month to the young and that was only to effectiveness your cause yep i'm going to albany to share as a citizen but it would seem they are beating their predicament and i need to find a good cigar that much. why the price is down the national such as in a country. 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
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country. every time a truck arrives to unload waste it's the same friends a. beggar get your mouth. about an article gonna be done by saying that a job was a while you come by he's going to. the actual book new suffering in zurich and i pinned. down you know it's you know the pen does its job but with gordon i was a tough order. you know you're going to. bury you national guard now. 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 to one of us and when i didn't get on and go work on my arm of a bias in my news. 00. at
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h. the model moon has already spent 2 years rifling through waste in search of plastic that's more than enough to know that there is only one moved to the recycling business here i don't need the strongest to make it. could all go where it resides don't go out. the next door because i'm by no means yes or no muff that's wrong there are more than just about snowing out there. 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 .
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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 70 kilo grams on your head. at 1st we're almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and
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going of climbers all smooth and then loads. but then we took to the. yeah but back it was an. enemy to me. you know. that i'm not doing that. and i'm. not going to have it in the sun. 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.
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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 then you're bound to tell me the price went down 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 least i don't have radically recalled because does not 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 paid to this. because you couldn't sense of time oh yeah so it accumulates. in 2017 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 28th. this decision
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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. so that it will take us because rest of the year. it says. there's no doubt that the way. we discussed was if a casket was if you. says the measure. son no.
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may. if in a fast. tempo usually correct them all with coca-cola you can still taste the feeling in plastic bottles 0 waste does not mean 0 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 13000000 bottles of plastic. by the coca-cola group throughout the.
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city is something wrong with being rich and being rich is nothing wrong with it people work hard they make a lot of money and for a lot of people that's very satisfying but when you become a patient's monopolist then you are heading up like in the pharmaceutical industry one or 2 or 3 major clucked to kravtsova collusion and colluding with monopolist. plus pricing that's right stats. as we speak large organized. are on the march to the united. in a play and coming african. this
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is a virtual invasion of our country. this . is you know do you see a more. noticed. the . my 7 years doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse started going after the users in the prison population who are
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we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs. there are a number of people who are in prison for. this for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking and. this is. human integrity board and i'm standing here today for shame to work on the issues of migrant rights and those who are impacted.
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