tv Documentary RT December 26, 2019 11:30pm-12:01am EST
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he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french speaker. may see an afternoon off was that renewed at all thanks hop on a week. i have. really. done in french cook i could have. some dish told as human behavior. i think gets me to what they are. we. because they perceive that. i don't. go. crazy in the economy secular. to be l u u t's. who. would take. their
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fair. before judging the actions let's take 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.
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here everyone waits for red and white buses who works alongside reginald white wolf and in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so off there awhile you would 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. that's 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 both also filled behind this window. because by. the 3rd.
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there is just to get around it but the board book which is in the lawn well 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 go the extra width apart from plastic allowed to be you while you are doing it but the prick apart from those who are different you do in terms of prosthetics that don't stop us that's a good to refer to. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is
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essentially unless you glass bottles they are strictly open very time of the book. already i don't care about their talk. only days before the show. 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 business of everyone now. how does the business prospect you saw the quality of the plastic does it defend the cycle. now that our factory visit is finished we can finally show you the wonders of the unforgettable tanzania. unforgettable turn that only. here are the real results of coca cola's famous recycling 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. max and stacey are continuing on our south american tour and as you can see behind me we are in rio de janeiro oh my god so beautiful so much going on this was a country good transition. same hammer i can use to smash someone's head is the same hammer i can use to build them a home but that's a human choosing what to do with that that's me expressing my values for the tool and that's what we need to do with artificial intelligence as well.
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today there are good terrorists and bad that is the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the looked at those award in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military juntas funding an army of death squads there's no posts anymore because there's always a small people for really good this. profit. 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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the best to have a party going to clamber. to play when you have to. go before you know one of the bit like the mexican you know you're going to. evidentially. leaving it small. in tanzania. by working 8 hours a day much i can collect up to 20 kenyans a bottles at $250.00 shillings aquino that's $0.10 she earns less than $2000000.00 records and that's on a good day. for someone you don't want them and they're not going after money when i buy the reason i asked to get to she did this want to kill him i tried to get us only to defect in israel because yeah i'm a 12 and i need to sell as
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a dissident but it would seem they are getting there because of money and i need to find a good cigar to come up. why the price is down the national the buzz 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 largest ship 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 get him out. but not the full gonna get some ice but the joke was that while you come by he's going to. your job. and it's up to unions who are his name pinned. down you know it's going to depend as his job was ill gotten i was a tough. you know joe you know. they got gasoline. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waste. but tell me what you got an actual. would you tell one of us and when i didn't get on and you know i am of 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 such
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a plastic 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. could all go where it resides. the next joke i buy is no more no less i'd rather that's what i'm doing more than just about knowing how to drive i don't go. it's time to train the windscreen and head elsewhere. we go to meet the people who dictate to nor on the new market for recycled plastic . we find them in the suburbs of paris and. these are the companies who buy plastic
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bottles this one is the largest in the country. 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 smaller than their loads.
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but then we took to the. yeah but actually it was an. enemy to me. enemy number one. and i'm. not going to have it in the sound. of your court that's looking. 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 what the side manager is about to explain to
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us. yesterday when i was working and asking for collectors 10 years it's only a price wonder if you also go down the wise saying that the night to buy this $1.00 was told. in september in the east bank saved ready to explode. because does not know if you know my kid so what did you do when you couldn't export to china all the 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 led to the collapse of the recycled plastic market our precarious business and an
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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. truth it will pick up because it messed up. it says. so. there's no doubt that the way. we have a fake us code was if you. says imagine. a. care. you know as you would expect this.
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mate. in a fast to. collect the money 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 being sold by the coca-cola group throughout the wound.
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