tv Documentary RT July 5, 2019 2:30pm-3:01pm EDT
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we're going to move everything back up to 3 our 4 children. the vice president of the company michael mann has traveled from the united states to questions will he has worked with coca-cola for 21 years he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french speaker. may see after the long run is that we knew that on thanks hop on over. there either and i have. really. done in french. book i could ask. some dish told is human behavior. i think gets me to what they. suck so won't. we. because they perceive it. don't. go. crazy in the economy secular don't.
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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 move and in the playground children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so off to 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. the american company is doing in tanzania what it did in the united states 50 years ago. replacing the glass bottles with plastic ones.
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guts what is going on behind these walls inside one of the 4 coca-cola factories in tanzania. our 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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the dock by. the 3rd. is the fix that the under that bought the boat but returned in the long haul i've been out of the. $86340.00 bottles in 2 and a half hours that's a lot of plastic we did the calculations that 10 bottles a 2nd and that's only on mom production line in one of the factories in the country . 5 years ago this factory only fabricated glass bottles but on the day of our visit the production line for glass bottles is almost at a complete standstill. because. what
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does it take to wake up a plastic g.b.u. while you are. doing it but the 3 apart from those who are defending you do you feel so flustered to set themself us it's good to feel good. about. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially a money. glass bottle to kill the victim of the book got rid of i don't care about the guitar i'm only a kid going through. 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 5 know take care of the business but stick to the political will to. defend the cycle. now the child factory visit is finished we can find a show you the one does have the book at 10 sitting on.
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unforgettable time the need. 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 potty economy. the new foreign policy think tank will start 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 ost among others talk about strange bedfellows can these establishment billionaires. take on
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the foreign policy. room. as we speak large organize care of a bar on the march to the united states. then 70 and a player coming out here to giving their. wars remains slaughtering dad. this is a virtual invasion of our country but so far it's bigger than anything we see. that often but i meant that there are a 1000 new for not going up in the parking lot but they are you know it's going to stuff it in. a knife our food. is you know do is you know we're going to see a more rural casino to see the show for a player for 2 of. the.
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mob is 50 years old and has 3 children that she is raising by herself. to feed her family she connects plastic on the beach. but the best to have a party going to clamber. to play when you're going to. go before dinner for both of. them about an accident you know your mil i don't know. evidentially death sunny is also leaving its mark in tanzania. by working 8 hours a day much. can collect up to 20 kilos or bottles at $250.00 shillings
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a keynote that's $0.10 she earns less than $2000000.00 writers and that's on a good day. to someone you don't want them and they're not going after money when i buy the reason i asked to help you decide if this about a month tried to get that was going to affect in this year because yeah i'm going to albany to share as a citizen but it would seem they are getting their predicament and i need to conduct this are going to come up. why the price is down in the shape of the buzz in the country and. 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 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 the full gonna get the mice that the job was a while you come by he's going to. the actual bought new stuff unions or is no pinned. down you know it's going to depend on his job but with gordon i was a tough. you know. they got gasoline.
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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 all of you. to us here. at 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 move to the recycling business here i'll need the strongest to make it. can all go where it resides. so much joke i'm by no means yes or no over. there were probably are more out there for them of us no not at all go.
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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. 70 kilograms on your head.
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at 1st will almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and going of climbers all smaller than their loads. but then we took to the. yeah but back it was our. enemy to me. 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
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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 10 years it's only the price when 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 radically. because does not know my kid so what did you do when you couldn't export to china all the people. but you see most days this is because you couldn't.
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so it's really. in 2017 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 20. 5th 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.
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clique you put are you teasing. you. do plastic. mate. if a fast to. them point is here i collect 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 been sold by the coca-cola group throughout the world.
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