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promises us a world without waste outside objective. god behind the scenes the american company is doing everything in its power to eschew any alternatives to plastic like the return bottle i did obviously show. after months of negotiations with the american multinational we have a meeting at the headquarters of coca-cola france for an interview but. it's almost certainly done up so well. when i live to see a lot of the polite and when welcome. and affection with handed down through the water before the body it seems we have not yet won that trust. question in a room as a short little call to move every thought well wait a minute echo picks the action so shall draw. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has traveled from the united states to answer all questions while he has worked for coca-cola for 21 years he's in charge of global policy and
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environmental sustainability and he's a french speaker. and they'll say it awfully well was that we did that on tax cuts on over. there i didn't advocate for that because off i read so our interview is done in french. cook i could ask. some dish told. i think gets me. because they perceive that the south. korean economy secular don't. move. the l u u t's. who.
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ever they do to make. a predictable got to know that. they're a. judging their actions let's take a little trip. and forgettable you tend to need. we 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.
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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 off there a while you almost 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. that's what is going on behind these walls inside one of the 4 coca-cola factories
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and zinnia. our guide is james ma the manager of the new production line a production line which only makes plastic bottles today that. using bottles a phantom one of the numerous brands inside the coca-cola group. everything is automated and the equipment is brand new the bottles of filth behind this window. because by. the 3rd.
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to stick it under their belt the book book which is in the lawn well i've been out of the. $86340.00 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 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 they want to go the extra width apart from plastic allowed to be where you are doing it but the trick apart from those 2 are differently roof in terms of prosthetics that done so
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far so good to look good to. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottles they are sticky open very time of the book. already i don't care about the retard. only cared for 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 in business to see everyone know i think as a business perspective so if the political goal was to. defend the cycle. now the child factor a visit is finished we can finally show you the wonders of the unforgettable tanzania. her unforgettable time that only. here are the real results of coca cola's famous recycling business and just by looking at the
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waste collectors we were told about it's clear that the recycling business is 1st and foremost a poverty economy. attempting to end one war while avoiding a new one as usual the trump administration's foreign policy is unpredictable and even contradictory there are no better examples than afghanistan during. the 1st. place. to be. brought. to.
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light it was no linkage. at least. is 50 years old and has 3 children that she. is raising by herself still. to feed her family she collects plastic on the beach. but not the best to have the car going to clamber over and tell her self well that's a cousin to play in the uk on our last call or 2 i didn't notice it but in the form of the bit like them about an accident you know your mil enough. evidentially sunny is also leaving its mark in tanzania.
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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 year olds and that's on a good day. to miss someone you don't want them in there i mean after morning when i would buy the reason i asked to get to she did this couple of the human mind to the young guy that's going to affect him this year because yep i'm going to albany to sell as a citizen but it would seem they are going to be there because the money and i need to conduct a sit down the commode. why the price is down the national 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 savagely. recycling economy we head to the largest tape in the land dollars the economic capital of the country . every time a truck arrives to unload waste it's the same friends they. are. bad enough to fill gonna get some ice and it was a white guy he's going to. use up the unions who are his and i pinned. down
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you ought to know that ben does his job but with gordon i was a tough. you know joe you know. you know i sure got grassley. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waste the genuine but tell me what you got an actual. we did to one of us and what i did and then get on and go. by asked in my news i am a lawyer. 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 only the strongest to make it. can all go where it works i don't doubt. so much all cuz i'm by no means out to god or know much. more that they're going about growing out of i don't go.
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it's time to clean the windscreen and head elsewhere. go to the people who dictate the war 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. before coming here we never would have been magine filming anything quite like this . a mountain of empty plastic bottles that you have to
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climb with 70 kilograms on your head. at 1st we are almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and going of climbers all smaller than their loads. but then we talked to the workers to. get out but actually it was our. enemy to make. anything. and i'm. not going to get it in the sand lot on that level course that's not limit for me. at the foot of
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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 large bags these bottles then go through these machines to be. 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 went down if you also go the way down the wise saying that be my tool by this one always told. it to him back in the east i don't believe ready to explode because does not know if you know my kid so what did you do when you couldn't export to
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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 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 to the collapse that 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 pick up because it messed up the u.s. . it says.
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net home plastic the members all of the system. your own. clique you put are you teasing. you. you know i. do plastic. packs cowboy on. mate yeah days if in a fast day 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
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world to future generations to have out and enjoy the ocean we have. confirmed that the peace talks with its color balance crops up to the militant group claimed responsibility for a couple with terror attack which left one american soldier dead. and yet another blow to british prime minister boris johnson parliament would jackson's latest move to call a general election as is the u.k. pays flown coast to exiting the e.u. next month but with the status of a deal in town. and. towns palestinians have clashed with israeli police stop testing against the death i mean inmate estimate in israeli jails. bullets in the next hour coming up on the international it's crosstalk in the u.k.
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