tv Documentary RT September 11, 2019 12:30am-1:01am EDT
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ins with the american multinational we have a meeting at the headquarters of coca-cola france for an interview but. it's a message i don't know so well at least when i did it to see you. polite and welcome. in the public and we don't know if you want to go through them but it seems we have not yet won that trust. question into an additional 8 o'clock local time with every thought well wait a minute back up because the action was all wrong. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has travelled from the united states to on so all questions well he has worked at coca-cola for 21 years he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french speaker. and they'll say after a while was that when you got on tax cuts on over. there i didn't i. really interview is done in french. look i could have. some dish
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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 also the incredible land of coca-cola. here everyone waits for red and white buses longside read and white movie and in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so off
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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. 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 poor coca-cola factories in tanzania. all guide is james muller about the manager of the new production line a production line which only makes plastic bottles today they're producing bottles
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of phantom 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. by. the for the under the pocket book but return in the long haul 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
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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 get the 60 away. from plastic g.b.u. while you are. doing it but the 3 apart from those who are defending your move into plus add to that in terms of us it's good to feel good. about. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially on the money. glass bottle to kill a bit of time of the book. but really i don't care about the guitar i'm only kidding. what our guide is trying to say is that plastic doesn't seem to be
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a problem for the environment in tanzania so it's come back to business to see everyone 5 now take care of the business but stick to the political will to. defend the cycle. now that our factory visit is finished we can find a show you the wonders of the ghetto tanzania. unforgettable 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. but
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the so-called afghan peace process in tatters u.s. troops still in syria iran more times than not agreeing with iran maximum pressure on iran failing and america's allies in the middle east at odds over yemen can. when make heads or tails out of trumps foreign policy in the middle east it seems to be going from bad to worse. well you know the cars being ripped out of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in the small boats next to the harpoon ships and it's scary. sometimes. the little self to be told fish already 90 percent of it daryn got any blown connor. concert 15 scoops 75 times trying to do it several times
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a day with the big fleets you know you get an idea of the ocean the fish. we have to understand we can not stay still and just. be with miss the field going to do our best. i'm doing this because i want the future world to the future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. one else to show its seemed wrong when all rolls just don't hold. any new clothes that is yet to shape out these days to come to advocate and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look
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for common ground. martha 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 i have a car to go to clamber on how to stop the little clock and to play when you have gotten a. little too lazy to notice a good enough or the bit like them about an accident you know your mil i don't have . evidentially sunny is also leaving its mark in tanzania. by working 8 hours a day much i can collect up to 20 kilos
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a 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 money when i would buy the reason i asked to get to she did this couple of the killing that was only to affecting this year because yep i'm on the 12 and i need to sell it as a decision but it would seem they are going to be there because the money and i need to be on the ships are going to come up. why the price is down electrical such as 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 state in the land dollar salaam the economic capital of the country. every time a truck arrives to unload waste it's the same frenzy. they get your mouth about. bad enough to fill gonna get some ice that was a white guy he's going to. the actual bought new stuff union's orders and i pinned . down you know what kind of the pin does its job but with your board and i was it tough for. you national guard.
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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 when i didn't get on and you know i'm biased in my native imo you 0 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 resides don't go out. so much ok i'm by no means out to god for no money i'd rather that's what i'm doing more that there's been about no not at all go.
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it's time to train the windscreen and head elsewhere. we go to 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. before coming here we never would have been madge 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 night. and i. thought this was it in the sound. of your court that's looking at it for you. at the foot of the mountain these workers begin their final sorting session they put the colored bottles and
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plastic bags to one side. they put their. bottles into launch pads 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 be my tool by this one always told. me to send them back in the east i don't think they 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 thing and
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this is because you couldn't sense of so i'm not 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. trust it will take it because it messed up. it says.
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it for you to use a. new . government to do plastic. packs cowboy and. mate. if in a fast you don't. trust the system for this year 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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thousands of american men and women choose to serve in their country's military. lives every song came to a complete. the day that i was raped i'll be instructive if you know all the shout out but they'd kill me and i see how destroyed my life. and he screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably
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somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there whether that's a man or one. of .
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