Transcripts For RT Documentary 20240714

The young one was not expecting such a surprising discovery when she began this piece is. Fish live at a depth of about 200 to 400 meters and theyre clearly coming in contact with plastic and it appears that plastic is truly a deeper problem that we might have imagined. Even swimming at these depths the long fish manages to swallow trivial plastic objects. I mean occasionally you might find a brand name such as this decide. What is this so this is a label from a water bottle dishonored bottle clearly and found amongst the lancet. Is a red. 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 taste than just. Just want to know. In front. Of the worlds best selling brands. And if youre not familiar with you will certainly know the name of the group behind it the Cocacola Company. Everyone knows coke but not everyone necessarily knows that the group is in china. Dozens of other brands just sunny as part of the Cocacola Company and sprite 2 there is also minute maid powerade and of course one of the companys flagship brands. Every year the group sells more than 120000000000. 00 bottles across the globe thats almost 2000 bottles a 2nd and this mass production is creating a devastating mass pollution. In january 28th in the multinational made a bold announcement by 2030 the brand is promising a load 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 reinvestigated the companys promises and on competence secret strategy which contradicts that convincing prejudice and none of us follow the link to the final results hes got no effect on the political philosophy 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 offering the soda giants american headquarters were going to expose the truth behind the socalled recycling economy that coke is trying to promote and thats the model here. Were going to see. It proceed at this particular motel yet again thats a night to. Come on one last drink for the road welcome to the Wonderful World of the plastic promises if the Cocacola Company. Cocacola and plastic have a longstanding 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 dinner. I got back nice to you nice to meet you yeah really welcome to coming out as it were going to 5. And then i doubt the drive was good that i wanted to run out yeah. But elmo is a historian. Hes the author of a book about cocacola a best seller its retraces the multinationals and time environmentalists strategy but equally from the sixtys on woods when plastic began to revolutionize Consumer Society we began to see massive amounts of litter piling up around the country cocacola tried 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 do 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 this sign everywhere in the United States 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 should 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. Was one speech. And this guy throws in his car he throws the packaging waist down it is feet and then and this great camera man lists the camera up towards the crying indians face and theres a tear in the snare and it comes on the screen and says. People start pollution people can stop it right and its this message of. 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 2 ways backed by the company with the red and white logan. 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 plan and thats at that and its serious stuff theyre even discussing the color of that trash cans that never found. The ball. 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 Derrick Robertson is a plant 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 do care what fire she. Went there as well to the south thinking it was something i. Want to be emphasizing individual rather than collective responsibility clearly nothing has changed since the advertisement of the native american crank. Assume that you were drinking coke or this morning is the single use bottled plastic of the problem today. Cos they are in fact. 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 always leave a form a function as important as how do we again as individuals dispose of these packages so cocacola for example one of the packaging rightly want to be able to get it fiery safely and music. What you dont want is a and then environment according to the head of the next says he ation 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 his attacks are you but if it is. What you want to doing here i dont know i mean what im asking you these are legitimate until especially seeing my own guys asian and scotland as my digital ok im fundamentally fruitarian committed to that role i volunteered my saying ok. By asking the finance question we have identified it touchy subject the conflict of interest in this book of conflicts of interest do you think theres going to continue as i said to have 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 to have sponsors again thats its a different model and im not there to start explaining her child isnt that the secret to her doing and good humor characters if you were to see see what it says bring her to a house once i want an option the Scottish Government discouragements policies and they hire out extras and some companies and some companies and i think. That i want to join more than. Mcdonalds starbucks. Most of reverse of big brand names. We had to insist since the sixtys cocacola has been paving the way for other. Multinationals. Thousands of american men and women choose to sin of in their countrys military and the decision a little sheltered lives every song came to a complete. The day that i was raped to be instructed here you know told to shut up or theyd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he raped me with his birth think area if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended by hand and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or women. You know world of big new law and conspiracies its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mid stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washing clothes for watching the hawks. But what if the soda giant really has 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 used. Of course that would be great news. But with all that we have learned about the companys strategy is we wanted to check how often they actually keep their promises the American Company has been promising to make bottles out of recycled plastic the years 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 sought to find any trace of this in the report from 2015. The Company Never clearly states whether or not that promise was kept we end up finding a single figure 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 material. Used the problem is that recycled and renewable plastic are 2 very different things. To decrypt the soda giants dogood 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. Put your best sort of the visit of the maids and the maids they are in. A supply of a country. Acting in a. 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. Not 7 badge of say on. So. The mail. That soon set for the plastic was sickly. And our labor day when you found that a special project a fundamental difference and we are clearly very far from the target from the end years 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 lesser. Need of secure. Sit back to guess which line that would have called you. Tell her. To call it because. Sizes 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. Emmetts 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 next 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 theyre promising the exact opposite in their public pledges. Other talent. 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. Week the 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 one 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 there actually 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 the company has 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 may. She can in the United States im going to have to reach her eyes to me its nearly thank you very much for coming out presenter thank you thank you very much. And this gentleman is called a send down and he what the american environmentalists agency for many is hes also the best engineer in the world to investigate the ecological impact of cocacola bottles. That does a very imitation there are smaller the typical quote settles about this this big green translucent all risk plus. All the stress. And danny 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 ems. 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 last 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 315. 00 trips before it is discard is the ecological container proposed also. Thanks to this report the Cocacola Company knows full well that 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. And they didnt publish it you know why. They were not interested in it have airing the public see the 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 tube i watch them slowly introducing the plastic bottles easy go. For i want all i even remember clearly want im going to hold going allman to same to bridget my wife as they go into the plaster bottle. 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 ad that for its new plastic bottle released in 1975 cocacola various aston danis report once and for all. Its life is 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 4th to turn at 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 their 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 it doesnt system want is the reason behind this because ultimately it means 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. Today there are good dentists and bad at it its the bad news in the end then who the United States deems to be a threat the good those who are in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. 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