tv Documentary RT September 9, 2019 6:30pm-7:00pm EDT
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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 who long side read and white wool and
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in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so off there 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. 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. guts what is going on behind these walls inside one of the 4 coca-cola factories in tanzania. all guide is james mother the manager of the new production line
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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. and the dock by. there. is the fact that the under that bought the book but returned in very long oh i've been out of the. $86340.00
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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. evolve visit the production line for glass bottles is almost at a complete standstill. because they want to go the 60 a week apart from plastic g.b.u. while you are doing it but the 3 apart from those 2 are different you do in terms of prosthetics that don't stop us it's good to feel good. and. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottles they 5 are strictly off the very top of the box got rid of i don't care about the
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guitar. only cares if. 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 in business to see everyone now take care of the business but speak to the political will but. it departs in being a cycle. now that our factory visit is finished we can find and they show you the wonders of the forgettable tanzania. unfair 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 1st and foremost a poverty economy. right
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listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. to leave room for the real news is. the barbarians the vandals of wall street are now actively plundering your bank account with a negative interest rate in astronomy comic policy there's no economics behind it that would cue to any school of economics that has ever existed as dr michael said since the bronze age it's just out right for. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision lives every song came to a complete. the day i was raped to be instructed you know told to shut up what they
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kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in and he gram my arm and he raped me with his birthing curia if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing tat. happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished to be offended by her and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave her a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our and violent male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. 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 not the best to have a party going to club or copacetic and to play when you have to. go before dinner for both of us like that 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 i can collect up to 20 kilos of bottles at $250.00 shillings a keynote that's $0.10 she earns less than 2 euros and that's on a good day. to
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miss someone you don't want them here i mean after morning when i would buy the reason i asked to get to she did this couple of the. effectiveness of the 12 i need to shave as efficient but it would seem they are getting there because of money and i need to find a good to sit down the commode. why the price is down in the shape of the device in a country. too much plastic and too many people like mata who collect 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 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. about an article gonna get some ice but i think it was a while you guys going to. the actual the new stuff unions who are is and i penned our deal when i yelled down you know it's going to depend as it's true but with your board and i was it tough. you know you're going to. bury you national guard gasoline. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waist deep down you know but only when you've got an actual. we determine
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honest and down or when i didn't and you then and you know what i'm i am of them biased in my news imo you 0 down 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 recent. business here only the strongest make it. all go where it resides don't go out. the next door because i know for no mouth. 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 roar on the new market for recycled
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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. before 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 are almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and
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going of climbers all smaller than their loads. but then we talk to the workers. yeah but back here was that. getting to me you are. getting a good night. and i'm. not going to have it in the sun. at 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
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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 then you're bound to tell me your price went up a few months ago the way down the wise saying that the one tool by this one was told. to sit in the east bank say 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 saved you this is because you couldn't sense of time oh yes so it's accumulates. in 2017 china announced that it no longer wanted to be the world's largest rubbish
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bin and that they would stop importing used plastic from january 28th. this decision to the collapse of the recycled plastic market or precarious business and an economy that rests entirely on the backs of the most vulnerable. back at the coca-cola had cooled his we speak to michael goldsman the vice president of the company again. what it will take it because the rest of you will want to tony. i don't really need to see. this. and there's no doubt does that mean we don't. we have a fake us because if you. says imagine.
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a species tomorrow is on point i care. invest 20. 1000 you know as you would expect. they impressed. me amazes me a lot quickly how long short of plastic officers will. yeah. yeah yeah. sure sure sure see. they do those he was at the. city north. to. see. them going called fail meant a nose or. under
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some plastic. ties to plastic. so that they pack cowboy on. mate yeah days if in a fast 8 don't. trust them pointers 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 will suffice 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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scary. to see a lot sometimes. the little self did big fish already 90 percent of the dot and he won't recover. contemplations coops 75 tons torn up and they do it several times a day with a big fleet so no you get an idea of why. we have to understand we could not stay still and just. be witness of the deal. warriors are. doing this because i want them for the future world to future generations to have out and enjoy the ocean we have. a.
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little trump concern for the peace talks with the taliban all scraps talk of the militant group claimed responsibility for a couple terror attacks which left one american soldier dead. animals just hours to go before suspended the u.k. parliament will get one last chance to agree to a general election we're showing you live pictures from inside the house of commons long right now let's go aloft or dissolve just wait for boris johnson with the pm losing all key breaks it votes we have the latest. on the russian journalist who was possibly the historic prisoner swap with ukraine speaks to us about his detention in kenya. what was said with such stupid to deny that it's a political process and it's time to.
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