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Perelman is a biologist accustomed to finding plastic in fish stomachs she has started a very unique connection. Casually often plastic bags. And this was all coiled up in the stomach when i found it had no idea what it wasnt all that it just. Or did you react when this storm i was shocked i started you know documenting it measuring it taking photos showing whoever else was around in the lab and we were kind of. We were just you know a shock to think that that these fish are are really ingesting this i mean. To her disbelief the scientists has found plastic in an unlikely specimen known as the long fish. The young researcher was not expecting such a surprising discovery when she began her work on this species. The. Fish live at a depth of about 200 to 400 meters and theyre clearly you know coming in contact with plastic and it appears that plastic is is truly a deeper problem that we might have imagined. Even swimming at these depths the long sit fish manages to swallow trivial plastic objects. I mean occasionally you might find a brand name such as this decide bottle label. What is this so this is a label from a water bottle dishonor bottle clearly and found amongst the plants that fish stomach. Is a. Design design is a pretty well known. Bottled water company. You know finding finding a label such as this in the stomachs. Makes it that easy to determine where you know where it may have originated. This is always more to things than just watch. And decide is much more than just want to know bottled. In fact sunny is one of the worlds best selling bottled water brands. And if you are not familiar with destiny you will certainly know the name of the group behind it the Cocacola Company. Everyone knows cocacola but not everyone necessarily knows that the group is in charge of dozens of other brands does own the is part of the Cocacola Company and sprite 2 there is also minute maid powerade and of course from one of the companys flagship brands. Every year the group sells more than 120000000000. 00 bottles across the globe thats almost the bottles the 2nd and this mass production is creating a devastating mass pollution. In january 28th and the multinational made a bold announcement by 2030 the brand is promising a World Without waste. And its James Quincey cocacola c. E. O. Who is leading the movement. What we need to create is the circular color we need to create value for the out there is absolutely doable a World Without waste thanks to unlimited Plastic Recycling but how reliable are the promises that this multinational can recycling really make this problem go away. With plastic becoming a global catastrophe brianna. Yes to gauge if the companys promise is and on competence secret strategy which contradicts that convincing prejudice and none of us who have those we dont know that they found these are just starting over effect on the political front for decades the multinational has been aware of the damage that its plastic bottles off capable of causing but responsibility has never appeared to for long then. What is the reason behind this because ultimately it means it means higher costs for them in africa fall from the soda giants american headquarters we are going to expose the truth behind the socalled recycling economy that coke is trying to promote in the similarly you are going to see. What is the path to help get us into this particular mode tied together then thats when i. Come on one last drink for the road welcome to the Wonderful World of the plastic promises of the Cocacola Company. The. Cocacola and plastic have a long standing relationship and one that is full of surprises. To find out more we traveled to the United States to meet a man who is well informed on the subject he lives in this small house in the dounia. I got back nice to nice to meet you yeah really welcome to join here coming out of this if we go to 5 guys right now i doubt what i have to drive is good that i wanted to find out yeah. But elmo is a historian. Hes the author. The book about cocacola a best seller it retraces the multinationals and time environmentalists strategy particularly from the sixtys on woods when past it began to revolutionize Consumer Society we begin to see massive amounts of litter piling up around the country cocacola trying to respond to this wow were getting blamed for all this aluminum waste all this ultimately Plastic Waste what do we do and one of the things they did was partner with a Organization Called Keep America Beautiful what. Are you here Keep America Beautiful you think like wow this sounds like an organization started by a bunch of kind of bearded environmentalist or at least thats what i thought. You know because you see the sign everywhere in the United States is still a very present organization but it was founded surprisingly by the beverage brewing in canning and Packaging Industries right the idea was that lets tell consumers theyre the bad ones theyre the litterbugs theyre throwing this away industry shouldnt be blamed for all this waste. And so this native american looking like a character from an old weston makes the Keep America Beautiful and huge that sense some people. Are bright. As one species. And this guy throws in his car he throws this packaging waist down it is feet and then and this great camera man unless the camera up towards the crying indians face and theres a tear in the snare it comes on the screen and says. People start pollution people can stop it right and its this message. Consumers are the problem right not us industry but consumers are. Since the success of this ad but in the us in the seventys Keep America Beautiful has branched out. Now there are organizations throughout the world designed using the exact same model and new ways backed by the company with the red and white logo. I. Want to stand how cocacola is recycling its reliable old consumer guru technique we have to go to their son i not to the chateau but to an event that is being held at the town. It is an important conference with several elected officials from all over europe and theyre here to speak about the men in this at that and its serious stuff theyre even discussing the color of that trash cans that every catholic on. The holiday that. He immediately goes. To conclude the meeting the guest of honor makes a speech this time its the director of keep scotland beautiful an association partly financed by cocacola like Keep America Beautiful and it seems Derek Robertson is a fan of soda. And listen closely some of his slip ups are extremely telling. I have a clear well i dont finish and so all of the things out. There get get. As it does here we go yeah it was exciting she went there as well to the south and came to something right here on. The emphasizing individual rather than collective responsibility clearly nothing has changed since the advertisement of the native american crank. Assume that you were drinking google it this morning is the single use a lot of plastic and the problem today. Is the plastic i mean. Stick packaging has a very useful function in society and we need to we need to remember that the products are very creative they are very very useful and they obviously perform a function as important as how you me again as individuals dispose of these packages so cocacola for example one of the packaging rightly want to be ready to get it fiery safely and music. What you dont want is a and then environment according to the head of an association which claims to fight against pollution cocacola is supposedly the example to follow but does he admit to being financed by the american multinationals he asked the question a few minutes later who is financing your targets. In order to finance these are the targets nobody anticipated. Would you want to doing here i dont know i mean im asking you these are judged until this question i see my organization and scotland as my digital ok im fundamentally fruitarian committed to that will i volunteer my saying. By asking the finance question we have identified it touchy subject the conflict of interest in this book of conflict of interest do you think theres going to ensure that our city of thing you are trying to create a measure of our fun site of interest about one thing youre trying to do you think there is one no. One source are you have sponsors again thats its a different model than a mob or to start explaining her child if you think that the secret to her doing and good humor terakhir you so if you were to see see what it says bring her to a house once i want an option for the Scottish Government discouragement its policies and they hire experts and some companies and some companies and im. Like i want to join more than. Mcdonalds bring starbucks. Most of real or some big brand names. We had to insist since the sixtys cocacola has been paving the way for other. Multinationals. With just manufacture come sentenced to public wealth. When the ruling classes project themselves. With the financial merry go round to listen to the one percent so. We can all middle of the room sick. I mean real news real world. Join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. As we speak large organize care of it are on the march to the United States. And then 70 and a player coming out for carrying. Just wars remains littering dad. This is a virtual invasion of our country. So far bigger than anything we see. In the form of. You know its going to stuff it in. A nice powerful. As you do is you know were going to see a more locals who noticed. That. The. But what if the soda giant really had decided to change a few months ago upon launching its program for a World Without waste the Company Announced a set of very ambitious measures to resolve the plastic pollution problem for cocacola the solution is recycling the concept is simple collect used bottles to make new ones out of them. Cocacola promises to put 50 percent recycled plastic in its bottles by 2030 and thats on a global scale that. Is absolutely doable theres a model there for the chinas a lot of parts of the world on how to create value out of plastic and get it we use. Of course that would be great news. But with all that we have learned about the companys strategies we wanted to check how often they actually keep that promise is the American Company has been promising to make bottles out of recycled plastic begins take the year 2008 for example in its report on Sustainable Development cocacola announced that it wanted to put 25 percent recycled plastic in all of its bottles by 2015. For a long time we so want to find any trace of this in the report from 2015. The Company Never really states whether or not that promise was kept we end up finding. Single 12. 4 percent at 1st glance its easy to believe that this is the percentage of recycled plastic used by cocacola but after taking a closer look 12. 4 percent turns out to be the total percentage of recycled and renewable materials used the problem is that recycled and renewable plastic are 2 very different things. To decrypt the soda giants jargon we arranged a meeting with an ngo that has been interested in the Cocacola Group for a long time. Is a specialist in ocean pollution and shes going to explain how the multinational twists words and statistics. Are best. See you put your best sort of the visit of the most i mean the most they are not. Supplanted every country. Back to 11. Renewable plastic is essentially plastic made from a plant base but its still plastic and therefore its still bad for the environment that clears up the words now lets move on to the statistics its all concerned about. Not 7 vegetarian now. So 6 feet. Thats soon set for the plastic or sickly. And our lives day when you found that a special projects funded me does a difference and we are clearly very far from the target from the n. G. s point of view cocacola is recycling targets are 1st and foremost a marketing ploy to ensure that the consumer keeps buying their plastic bottles. Which is an element as its. Called out of us the clash lessers volatile. Sabbats protests were so long that sanju would have called you some class seats to tell you. The pool of College Costs only alexis on fox says to the. Cocacola subtle statistical distortions are bad but the worst is yet to come. We uncovered something far worse in this envelope which contains dozens of letters and internal records from cocacola these documents should have remained confidential but they were published anonymously on the internet a few months ago we carefully sifted through all the information and found that we could not be further from the ambitious a World Without waste slogan. Amidst the mass of information this document caught our attention its dated from 2016 and signed by the cocacola as a law being manager in brussels. The bullet points are all the measures that europe could adopt but which do not coincide with coca colas interests. In the mix we find Carbon Pricing restrictions on the usage of caffeine and eat you ban of advertising to children under 12. 00. In other words anything that could lower the companys turnover figure on the right theres a circle entitled fight back these are all the european measures that cocacola has decided to fight against through lobbying. And amongst the measures that cocacola downright refuses we find increased collection and recycling targets. You heard it cocacola wants to fight against increased recycling targets in europe while theyre promising the exact opposite in their public pledges. Other talent. 0. In that fight back category we also discovered that the Company Wants to fight against the deposit system. This is one of the systems that is actually effective in combating pollution and the oldest in the game are well aware of this. Deposit system works like this when you buy your drink you pay lets say a euro for it and you also pay an extra charge the deposit lets say 0. 20 per bottle in total itd cost you 1. 00 euro 20 but if you bring back the bottle youd get your 0. 20 back and so all of a sudden no one wants to throw their bottles away anymore. And what is most ironic is that the returnable bottle is virtually how cocacola began in the fiftys a bottle of coke was not always served by a pin up girl instead it was served in a glass bottle with a deposit. So once empty the bottles would go back to the factory where they would be washed and reused this creates significantly less waste for the environment. The system worked very well but coke decided to put an end to it and use plastic instead completely disregarding one particular scientists recommendations. Would you like to know how coke decided to get rid of the return of the old bottle that the company has forever at. Attempted to keep this story from getting out but we tracked down the only man able to tell it. Today he is enjoying a discreet retirement in michigan in the United States im going to give it to reach him nice to me its nearly thank you very much for the look on our precentor thank you thank you very much. And this gentleman is called a send down aked he was with the american environmentalists agency from many is hes also the 1st engineer in the world to investigate the ecological impact of cocacola bottles. That does a very imitation there are smaller the typical quote battles about this this big green translucent all riskless. All risk less. Than a is referring to the beginning of the 70s. That was when the Cocacola Company began to show an interest in plastic and to reach out to him. What they wanted to know is if you take into account all other and environmental impacts on nature what is the best system the engineer works for over a year comparing the environmentalists impact of gloss bottles to that of any medium cans and plastic bottles he costs analyzes the data makes graphs does complex calculations and he finally comes to this conclusion a glance at the table shows that the returnable glass bottle provided it makes 15. 00 trips before it is discard is the ecological container proposed also. Thanks to this report the Cocacola Company knows full well at the start of the seventys that return apple gloss pollutes significantly less than plastic. But the company would never publicly shed this information. We put this together for them. They didnt publish it you know why. They were not interested in him to have everything the public see. The total picture why because they want to keep it in keep it quiet as to which way they were going to go. This is the new life way plastic. I watch them slowly introducing the plastic bottles easy go. For want i even remember clearly one time going to hold going allman to same to bridget my wife as they go into the plus or bottle the told you they would and they are not growing its just a 1st step sound nice that 10 eco plastic bottles playlist and one glass bottle. With this add that for its new plastic bottle released in 1975 cocacola berries ass and honest report once and for all. Its lifes tough its easy to let. The American Company never looks back cocacola imposes its plastic bottle everywhere and then isnt the only one flooding the market its a tidal wave from the eightys on with plastic devastates beaches. And the 1st ecologists begin to protest against pollution. Certain american states consider a forced return of the deposit. Little do they know the companys immense power. Cocacola has been a significant force behind. Fighting legislation that would put deposits on containers or put some kind of price on packaging waste there are newsletters that talk about all the successes that cocacola is having around the country and its almost like this great you know celebration letter every day every week we defeated this deposit system in this state and we defeated it here why do you think they were fighting so hard against deposit system want as the reason behind this because ultimately it means higher costs for them in the end this was a way of this was forcing them to internalize their pollution costs this was a market mechanism thats very smart to try and get industry to recognize that you have to deal with this waste. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy people in sunday shouldnt let it be an arms race is on very Dramatic Development only really im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. 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