tv Documentary RT September 10, 2019 6:30pm-7:01pm EDT
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there. before judging the actions let's take a little trip. unforgettable. 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 the incredible land of coca-cola.
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here everyone waits for red and white buses hoops alongside red and white wolves and in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so off there a while you will stop 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. 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. guts what is going on behind these walls inside one of the 4 coca-cola factories and zinnia.
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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 filled behind this window. at the dock by. their side.
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it's just that i didn't put the book book which is very long oh i've been. $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 only on mom the 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 olive visit the production line for the glass bottles is almost at a complete standstill. because there was a scale that you know when. plastic allowed to be you why you are. doing it but the 3. apart from those who are defending the roof in films all flustered to set themselves up there's a good to feel good. about. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is
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essentially unless you glass bottle to kill the very time of the book. but really i don't care about the guitar i'm only kidding. what alan guy does 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 has the business prospect to fill the political will to. defend the cycle. now that our factory visit is finished we can find a show you the one does of the book at 10 sitting up. in forgettable time that i need. here are the real results of coca cola's famous recycled. business and just by
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looking at the waste collectors we were told about it's clear that the recycling business is 1st and foremost a poverty economy. i'm max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is a hedge fund and it's a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for a while because we're people. today there are good dentist and bad evidence the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the good those who work in syria the cia and the u.s.
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military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military windows funding an army of death squads there's no posts anymore because there's always a small people or a really good this. world is driven by shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask.
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is 50 years old and has 3 children that she is raising by herself. to feed her family she collects plastic on the beach. but not the best i have a car going to clamber over and told herself well that's a company to pay when you have to get off the last $1.00 to lazy to notice a good enough for a bit of them about an accident you know your mil i don't have. evidentially sunny is also leaving its mark in tanzania.
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by working 8 hours a day 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 up with peter she did this couple of acumen to mark todd young again that was going to affect him this year because the outcome of the 12 and the need to sell is a decision 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 that it wasn't a 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. around dollar salaam the economic capital of the country. every time a truck arrives to unload waste it's the same frenzy. they get you out. but not the full gonna be done by someone that i was i when i got my he's going to. use up the unions who are his and i pinned.
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down you know it's going to depend as his job but with gordon i was it tough. you know you're going to. bury you national guard. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waste you genuine but tell me what you got an actual. we did to one of us and what i did and then get on and. biasing money imo you 0 down to us here. at h. the model moon has already spent 2 years rifling through waste in such a plastic that's more than enough to know that there is only one move to the recycling business here only the strongest make it. can all go where it resides no doubt. so much all kinds of buyers no more know much. more that there's been about no not at all.
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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. 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 match and filming anything quite like this. a mountain of empty plastic bottles that you
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have to 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 talk to the workers. yeah but actually it was our. enemy to me. that. was. not the same as it is in the sound. of your core technically. at the foot of the mountain these
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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 reduced to small pieces before they can be recycled. until very recently the company exported this plastic to china billard just buyer of recycled plastic in the world this is one of the side manager is about to explain to us. yesterday when i was working and asking for collectors 10 years it's only surprise when a few months ago the way down the wise saying that be my tool by this one always told. me to save them back in the east bank to save 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 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. too little to get because it messed up the u.s. . it says.
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doesn't. met home class the members all of the system. yeah the system the. clique you put are you teasing. you. plastic cup if you say. you know. some test leak. why do government do plastic. that it's a fact cowboy on. mate yeah days if in the fast they don't. trust the system for sure i 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 succulent 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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when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. max kaiser financial survival guide liquid assets are those that you can burn in to cast quite easily. to keep in mind though as a trim into a pleasure to watch record. this is this is a stick from the water bottle phone in the stomach of the fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad was there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. soon as we speak. in maine that seems cool sets will soften their plastic to seek
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a close ally and i need to stay on your phones at a special projects funded he tells it depends. on the new vest that is the end of a footy team but for now the mountains of waste only grow higher. well you know the fire thing we've kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i've been there in the small boats next to the hard pool of ships and it's very. much up in. the limo self to big cold fish already 90 percent of it are not and it won't be calmer. contemplations coops $75.00 tons they do it several times a day with a big fleet so now you get an idea on why. we have to
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