tv Documentary RT July 7, 2019 4:30am-5:01am EDT
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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 who works alongside reginald white wolf and in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so offer 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
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glass but this will soon be over. what 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. our 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.
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everything is automated and the equipment is brand new the bottles of filth behind this window. and this dock up by. the. 3rd. is just to get around it but the book book which is in the lawn well i've been out of the. $86340.00 bottles in 2 and a half hour was 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
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bottles but on the day of our visit the production line for glass bottles is almost at a complete standstill. because they want to go the extra week apart from plastic allowed to be you while you are doing it but the 3 apart from those 2 are differently roof in terms of plus add to that in terms of us it's a good to look good for. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottle to kill the very time of the book. was written i don't care about the guitar. only good records sure. 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 business of everyone. no i take it as
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a business perspective so if you call it full. being. now the child factory a visit is finished we can finally show you the wonders of the book at 10 sitting up. on forgettable times you need. here are the real results of coca-cola spraying this recycling business and just by looking at the waste collectors we were told about it's clear that the recycling business is passed on through most of the t. economy. the.
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the end. as you wish the large organized care of it are on the march to the united states. 70 and a player coming out for carrying. just. that. this is a virtual invasion of our country. so far bigger than anything. that i'm at than a. but i meant that i have fallen you know far enough out of it up on the part of
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the author you know it's going to fit into. a knife our feel. as you do is you know we're going to see a more brutal goes unnoticed suspicion for a player for 2 hours without. the. soul of the temporary orders that i'm under before i go to final trial actually do allow me to address them as james and his male pronouns but i cannot do that in front of 3rd parties who know him as a girl so basically i can't go to a school i keep them away from any friends he might have at school that know him as a girl at my home he's known as james and i use male pronouns what i'm prohibited from doing right now is try to convince him that he's actually a boy. who is 50 years old and has 3 children that she is raising by herself.
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to feed her family she connects plastic on the beach. but no the best i have ever done a plumber told her self to look and to play when you are the last one ball too lazy to go before you know 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 and. by working 8 hours a day much i can collect up to 20 keenan. at $250.00 shillings a keynote that's $0.10 she earns less than 2 euros and that's on a good day. someone
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you don't want them to hear you after morning one of the by the reason i asked to help you decided that i want to kill and i'm tired young again and i'm going to do for a 2nd this year because yeah i'm on the 12 and i need to show as a citizen but it would seem they are going to be there because the money 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
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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 you might. not a fool gonna order some ice that the doctor was a while you come by he's going to. the actual book new stuff unions who are his name pinned. down you know what you know the brain does its job but with your board and i was it off. you national guard. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waste. i
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don't know when you got an actual. we did one of us and when i did and you know. my name is. 00. 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. all go where it restarts all. the next york i know or know a little rough. more than just about the door and out. it's time to clean the windscreen and head elsewhere.
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we go to meet the people who dictate then nor on 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. and. 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.
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at 1st will almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and going of climbers all smooth and then loads. but then we took to the workers. yeah but back it was that. enemy to me who are. you know. enemy number one. and i'm. not going to get in the sun without them at neville court that's not the limit for me. 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
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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 what the side manager is about to explain to us. yesterday when i was working and asking for collectors 10 you're bound to tell me the price went down a few months ago the way down the lies saying that the one tool by this time was told. to get them back in the east bank all 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 would buy and would buy you but you see the money thing this is because you couldn't sell to time oh yeah so i can relate. in 20. china announced that it no longer wanted to be the world's largest rubbish
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bin and that they would stop porting used plastic from january 28th. 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. we don't. we.
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do sort of plastic may on class or jewelry can system for you a problem. do you really did look. on. this do you really on a own trend. and eat. it too soon maybe for a for the new year doesn't know what i mean that's for the terror. doesn't. that's home plastic members. yeah the system does. keep it for you teasing.
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you know i. do press jake. to that. fact. mate. if in a fast to. trust the system pointers 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 sun 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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drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentences for whom minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports
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business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. in the headlines this weekend the crisis between iran and the west end is a new face as to run prepares to renee go to its commitments on the 2050 nuclear deal further after its deadline for sanctions relief. and some of the big stories of the week russia pay tribute to the 14 sailors who were killed in a file on the nuclear submarine in the barents sea on monday. fighter jets soaring through the skies of washington tanks rolled through the streets donald trump came under fire in the wake for militarizing u.s. independence day celebrations. a lot of it could also do for us.
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