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Scientist 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 this piece is. The. 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 fish manages to swallow trivial plastic objects and i mean occasionally you might find a brand name such as this dishonored bottle label. What is this so this is a label from a water bottle. And found amongst the lancet. 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 always more to taste than just. Just want to know. In front. Of the worlds best selling brands. And if youre not familiar with the 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 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 from 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 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 reinvestigated the companys promises and on cover to secret strategy which contradicts that convincing. And on up as well as a link to the final results is that no effect on the political focus 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 far 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 somebody who. I dont want them in there but you got to get to see that this particular motel you know that 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 and you nice to meet you yeah really welcome to america you know this is going to 5. And then i doubt one of the drivers get that im going to come on 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 particularly 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. You hear Keep America Beautiful you think like wow this sounds like an organization. Started by a bunch of kind of bearded environmentalist 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 burning in canning and Packaging Industries right the idea was that lets tell consumers there are the bad ones theyre the litterbug 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. As one species. 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. Consumers are the problem right not us industry but consumers are. Since the success of this advert 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 who is backed by the company with the red and white logo. To understand how cocacola is recycling its reliable old can spew magoo 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 message that and its serious stuff theyre even discussing the color of that trash cans that have found. All the. Media isnt. 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 known issue and saw the thing in the air. Is that it does here we do care and want to fire she. Bendish well if you can stop thinking into something. You want to be emphasizing individual rather than collective responsibility clearly nothing has changed since the advertisement of the native american crime. I assume that you were drinking cocacola this morning is single use a lot of plastic and the problem today. Class they are Plastic 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 i mean use it. What you dont want to say 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 or. Building your finances are the targets of you but if it is a terrorist. Who would you want to drink here i dont know i mean im asking you these are alleged to be in jail especially seeing my own guys asian and scotland as my digital ok im fundamentally fruitarian committed to that will i volunteer 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 you think theres going to ensure that our city of thing you are trying to create a measure of our influx of interest about one thing youre trying to do you think there is one. We are one source are perhaps one source again thats its a different model but im over to start explaining her child isnt that the secret to her i know you can get your metallic curious if you want to see see what it says. Once i was upset the Scottish Government was coarseness policies and they hire experts and some companies and some companies like. That i want to join more than. Mcdonalds starbucks. Most of the big brand names. We had to insist that since the sixtys cocacola has been painting the way for other multinationals. We have to be experts haitian bad when we lifted people out of poverty when we became richer then wed become. And i think valeries what a lot of people ah structuring was now the expected that once they reached a certain level of income then they would be happy. And yet we create new size we create new things we want and i think sometimes we run out of explanations for why we feel unhappy. If you will not obey the voice of the lord your god will be careful to do all these commandments and the statutes which i command you this day then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. And then the white people the stolen property and therefore it must be returned to black people if they get rid of whites only problems will go away. The need to think the. President of the frequent the whole. Wide fall residence of. Every single. People being tortured to death expression the elderly people in the dome. Mania somebody if somebodys. Not been the case why of course will find themselves affected by a crash and we often point to what effect means in greens its all sweats and a lot of. What are you going to have for dinner today we dont have anything im asking for a nice meat bad feelings to the civil war in south africa easy never to. Profit from was there any chong not be in the tone of your hand to predict. 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. 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 to. Have goals 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 their promises the American Company has been promising to make bottles out of recycled plastic for 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 and we end up finding a single figure 12. 4 percent at 1st glance its easy to believe that this is the percentage of recycle. 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 dog and we arranged a meeting with an ngo that has been interested in the Coca Cola 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. Ssage better to put just sort of the visit of the most i mean the most they are not. Supplanted of a country. Back to the 11th renewable plastic is essentially plastic made from a plant base but it 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. 6 feet. That soon will set for the plessy crissy click away 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 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. On tests. As a whole lot of us to clash lesser dollars not 3 pts. Made of. A stash sabbats protests were so long that sanju would have called you son class to tell. The truth of college costs. 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. Emmetts the mass of information this document caught our attention its dated from 2016 and signed by the coca colas law being manager in brussels. The bullet points are all the measures that europe could adopt but which do not coincide with cocacola as 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 and 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 says. Other talents but the ties in. Many. Say are real. 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 it would 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 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 old bottle 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 trip time and 10 michigan in the United States im going to have to reach him nice to be examined thank you very much for coming to our tree center thank you so here i am knots. And this gentleman is called us and down a he what of the american environmentalists agency familias hes also the 1st engineer in the world to investigate the ecological impact of cocacola bottles. That does a very imitation there are smaller. Typical quote battles about this this big green translucent all riskless. Over is flawless. 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 him. What they wanted to know is if you take into account in all other end environmental impacts on nature what is the best system the engineer works for over a year comparing the environmentalists impact of glass bottles to that of any 1000000 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 returnable glass pollutes c. Then plastic. But the company would never publicly share this information. We put this together for them and they didnt publish it you know why. They were not interested in it have everything 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. I watch them slowly introducing the plastic bottles easy. But i want to i even remember clearly one time going to going home and they saying to bridget my wife and i said theyre going to do a plastic bottle told you they would and they are not growing its just a 1st step. Serialised that 10 eco plastic bottles playlist and one last bottle. With this advert for its new plastic bottle released in 1975 cocacola various aston danis 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 own words 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 to close it system want is the reason behind this because it ultimately 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 those ways. 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