tv Documentary RT December 26, 2019 11:30am-12:00pm EST
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but you knew the short term problem with everything going back up to 3 or 4 children. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has travelled from the united states to questions will 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. may see actually long lines that renew that on thanks hop on over . there either and i have a. real. deal is done in french book i could ask. some dish told as human behavior. i think gets me to what they. suck so won't. we. because they perceive that. i don't.
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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 looks alongside red and white walls and in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so offer a while you was 'd 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. for the american company is doing in tanzania what it did in the united states 50
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years ago replacing the glass bottles with plastic ones. that is 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. everything is automated and the equipment is brand new both also filled behind this window.
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and this. by. the 3rd. is just to get around it but the book book which is very long oh i've been. in 86340 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. 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
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go the extra week apart from plastic allowed to be you while you are doing it but the 3 apart from those 2 are different in the roof in terms of plus add to that so it's all false that's good to look good to. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottle to kill of a time of the book. already 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 a problem for the environment in tanzania so it's come back to the myth that everyone now. does the business bus pick to fill the political build. up in the cycle. now the factory visit is finished we can finally show you the wonders of
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the tanzania. unforgettable tend to 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 fast and almost a poverty economy. i'm not one who will ever argue that there are worthy and unworthy victims it's also important to also distinguish the fact that whenever we have a crime. of genocide and other cases of genocide that's that we're talking about issues of confronting it and injustice and reparations for it are important
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it is important to confront the crimes wherever they happen but it shouldn't be means to dilute the experience of. it in this particular case of the i think it's. rather see. the light and. my name is droll more than i was for this to die in prison but it's for my life. case to grab some media attention and it's a shooting in a 16 year old's 16 birthday party. so i think the place has held a lot of pressure choose to close the case. for you as well you just don't it's like our company goes higher. you
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know so far that they're all for the shorter one basically i would guess that all of this universe because i was standing right next to. me for is because you got him i wasn't doing those 1617 years old so. i just couldn't believe 1. 100 to spear them a luxury a. hole through the. formalisms cause george. mitchell. is 50 years old and has 3 children that she is raising by herself. to feed her family she collects plastic on the beach.
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but the best i have of are going to clamber. up the little cousins to play when you are. too lazy to go before good enough for both of us 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 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. someone is only going to hear you now from only one of the by the reason i asked to help you decide if they want to kill him i'm tired young again and i don't want to
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effectiveness your cause yep i'm on the top and i need to show is that because you bought it but they are getting their predicament and i need to conduct it to see gotta come up. why the price is down in the short of the deposit on current. 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 a truck arrives to unload waste it's the same friends
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a. beggar getting out. about an article gonna be done by saying that the joke was that while you guys going to. the actual new stuff union's orders and i pinned. down you know what kind of the brain does its job but with your board and i was it off. you national guard gasoline. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waste be genuine but tell me what you got an actual. we did. one of us and. the money is. 0 to us here. at h. the model moon has already spent 2 years rifling through waste in search of plastic
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that's more than enough to know that there is only one moved to the recycling business here i'll need the strongest to make it. all go where it resides. the next joke i'm buying no more no 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 neuron the new market for recycled plastic . we find them in the suburbs of dar es salaam. these are the companies who buy
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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. that 1st will. almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and going of climbers who was smaller than their loads.
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but then we took to the. yeah but back here was that. enemy to me you are. no. enemy number one. and i'm. not going to have it in the sound. of your court that's not the limit for me. 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
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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 then you're bound to tell me the price went down a few months ago the way down the wise saying that be my tool by this one we've all . seen that same back in the early stuff 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 paid to this is because you couldn't sell to time oh yeah so it accumulates. in 2017 china announced that it no longer wanted to be the world's. and that they would stop importing used plastic from january 20. 3rd the recycle plastic market or precarious business and an economy that rests
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mate. if in 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 a single statistic. during the length of this film nearly 13000000 bottles of plastic been sold by the coca-cola group throughout the won't.
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you have to teach me. just because it's part of my mother loves her because. you know. i don't. join me every 1st week on the alex so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you that. taxes are not going to do it you have to go right to the root of things it's assets and debts at the balance sheet balance sheets is what they should talk about and that's where we can be clever because taxation is the dumb one of trying to get the wealth back from the from the wealthy.
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