tv Documentary RT December 26, 2019 6:30am-7:01am EST
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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 longside reginald white wolf and in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so after a while you will stop 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. 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 mother the manager of the new production line a production line which only makes plastic bottles today they're producing bottles of phantom one of the numerous brands inside the coca-cola group.
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everything is automated and the equipment is brand new the bottles of filled behind this window. by. the 6300 in the book but return in the long haul i've been out of the. $86340.00 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
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. 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 extra week apart from plastic other g.b.u. while you are. doing it but the trick apart from those who are different to you in terms of prosthetics that sense of us is a good to feel good. about. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottles out to kill the very time of the book got full movies i don't care about the guitar i only care if. 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 everyone 5 now take care of the business bus pick to fill the political bus to go see a difference in being respectful. now that our factory visit is finished we can find and they show you the wonders of the forgettable tanzania. 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. israel
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rather see. but i do go wrong a lot of them. my name is droll more than i was for the imprisoned brothers for sure love my life. take a stick grab some media attention and it's a shooting in a 16 year old's sweet 16 birthday party foul citing the please tell a lot of pressure to. close the case. for he is. just drunk it's like i couldn't believe those hired. me out so far they are all for the sure don't want peace be with us to all of this universe because i was standing right next to. me for is the sun you got to keep in mind for
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the doing was 1617 years old so. you could leave london's or night as plunder of his peers a luxury. full food. for more than just close to drool you. know the truth. 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 no the best a half hour south of france is going to clamber coconuts one little cotton to play when you're on the west one ball too lazy to go before good enough for both of you
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like the mexican you know your mil i don't know. evidentially sunny is also leaving its mark in tanzania. by working 8 hours a day much i can collect up to 20 keenness of bottles at $250.00 shillings a keynote that's $0.10 she earns less than $2000000.00 records and that's on a good day. to someone who is only going to hear him after morning one of the by the reason i asked to help we decided this couple of the month tried to get us only to affect him this year because yep i'm on the 12 and i need to sell as a physician but it would seem they are getting there because of money and i need to find a good cigar that much. why the price is down electrical such as in the country and . too much plastic and too many people like mata who collect empty
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get you might. not a fool gonna order some ice but the joke was that while you got my son going to. the actual book new stuff unions are. and i pinned. down the can of the pen does its job but with gordon i was it tough. you know. they got ghastly. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waist. but only when you've got an actual. when you tell one of us and when i didn't get on and. by asking my name is imo you 00 you're. 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 need the strongest make it. can all go where it resides.
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the next joke i'll buy is no more no less i dreaded that runs there are more out there for them of us no not at all. it's time to clean the windscreen and head elsewhere. we go to need to people who dictate the neuron the new market for recycled plastic . we find them in the suburbs of paris alone. these are the companies who buy plastic bottles this one is the largest in the country.
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people coming here we never would have a match and filming anything quite like this. a mountain of empty plastic bottles that you have to climb with 70 kilograms on your head. at 1st we're almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and going of climbers all smooth and then loads. but then we took to the. yeah but actually it was our. enemy to me.
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enemy number one. and i'm. not going to have it in the sound. of your court that's not. 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. 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 tenure it's only a price wonder if you also go down to the wise to buy this one we
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still. didn't get them back in the east that they have radically recalled because does not. no 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 all these days this is because you couldn't sell to time oh yeah so it's really it's. 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 led 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
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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. join me every thursday so i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that.
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