tv Documentary RT December 25, 2019 10:30pm-11:01pm EST
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cool tis of coca-cola france for an interview but. it's a message they don't love so well at least when i live to see you. polite and welcome. in the public in which you don't know if you want to go through the body it seems we have not yet won that trust. question may go in as a short supply problem with every thought well wait a minute back up and say i should plus i was wrong. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has travelled from the united states to on so all questions will he has worked for coca-cola for 21 years he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french spica. and they'll say after a while was that we knew that i'd stop on a week going to be 20 odd because often a week so all interview is done in french. cook i could have.
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a little trip. 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. here everyone waits for red and white buses who works 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 was stopped noticing it. the good
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news is that in this country you can still find coke bottles made out of reusable glass but this will soon be over. 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 and zinnia. 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.
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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 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 g.b.u. while you are doing it but the truth apart from those who are different you do in terms of prosthetics that don't stop us that's a good to look good for. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottle sticky open very top of the box got rid i don't care about the guitar. only cared for sure. 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 15 minutes every 2 hours now. take care of the business perspective for the political will to. defend the cycle. now the child factory visit is finished we can finally show you the wonders of the unforgettable tanzania. unforgettable time that we need. here are the real results of coca-cola is 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. so
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what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful at very critical time to sit down and talk. my name is sucking on the world social media has to jack see what i don't see it's a. little bit over there you know if it isn't. going to win enough we're going to get it up and down to cause you need to move to ground 0 the next east gets and i use that down 6 to make it very very easy and also teach school on drug use to people. who. people. who
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commit crimes before the school closed because clubs during his child. the life the music that. i love to do is because he makes me copy a love he does because he makes me copy playing moved from the area and i sing. and when you go to church you have nothing. to do bad beyond ours and because it's part of us. love there are those who. you know. that i doubt. is 50 years old and has 3 children that she is raising by herself just. to feed her family she collects plastic on the beach.
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but no the best i have the card is going to clamber help yourself to look and to pay when you are. a little too lazy to do this according to one of the bit like about an accident you know your mil i don't know. evidentially sunny is also leaving its mark in tanzania. but. by working 8 hours a day much i can collect up to 20 keenness a bottles at $250.00 shillings a keno that's $0.10 she earns less than to your eyes and that's on a good day. or so money you are going to heaven after morning when everybody agrees with you not
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to upgrade to shit this couple of the younger and that's going to affect him this year because the outcome of the 12 and the need to sell is a. because you know but it would seem they are getting there because the money and i need to conduct it to got a much. wider price is down to less sugar that it was in the country and. 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 head to the longest tape in the land dar es salaam the economic capital of the country. every time
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a truck arrives to unload waste it's the same frenzy. to get you out. about an article gonna get some ice that i was i why you guys going on. the actual new stuff unions orders and i penned our deal with our yeoman down you know it's going to depend as it's true but with gordon i was a tough order. 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 the genuine but tell me what you got an actual well we did you an honest injun know when i did an engine and go work on my arm of a bias in my news i am
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a lawyer 0 janet to us here. at h. the model mu 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 make it. all go where it resides don't go out. so much york i know you are going over. 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 plastic.
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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 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 going of climbers all smaller than their loads.
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but then we talk to the workers. yeah but actually it was that. getting to me you are you know. enemy number one. and i'm. not going to have it in the sun. 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 before they can be recycled. and.
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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 it's only surprise when a few months ago the way down the wise saying that be my tool by this time was told . to sit in the east bank 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 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 bin and that they would stop importing used plastic from january 28th. this decision
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add to the collapse of the recycled plastic market our precarious business and an economy that rests in time. at 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 a year and a tornado. hit. so that. there's no doubt does that mean we don't freeze if. we have a fake of reserve even. says the measure.
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mate. a fast. 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. 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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