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In front sonny is one of the worlds best selling water brands. And if youre not familiar with me 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 sunny is part of the Cocacola Company and sprite 2 there is also minute maid and of course from one of the companys flagship brands. Every year the groups 120000000000. 00 bottles across the globe thats almost. A 2nd and this mass production is creating a devastating map pollution. In january 2800 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 that theres absolutely doable for 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 their convincing ideas and none of us falls asleep and over those are the founders are just starting over effect by 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 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 him as somebody who you are with them and if you have what is that got to help get us into this particular type of gallaudet that doesnt like to. Come on one last drink for the road welcome to the Wonderful World of the plastic promises of the Cocacola Company. Kolo 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 dinner. I got back nice to meet you nice to meet you yeah really welcome to. You know the think of the 5. I know i know the drive is good thats about it come on him yeah. But elmo is a historian. Hes the author of a 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 released 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 burning in canning and Packaging Industries right the idea was that lets tell consumers there are 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. And old weston makes the Keep America Beautiful and huge that sense some people. Are bright. As 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 unless the camera up towards the crying and ians 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 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. One to stand how cocacola is recycling its reliable old can spew mcgoo technique we have to go to their son 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 theyre here to speak about the plan in this at their talents and its serious stuff theyre even discussing the color of that trash cans and that kind of thing. All the. Media is. 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 plant of soda. And listen closely some of his slip ups are extremely telling. I have a clear well i dont wish to soften the whole thing about. The character. As it does here we do care what they are she. Bendish as well if you stop thinking into something like. The 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 the single use bottled plastic of the problem today. Plastic 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 we 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 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 or. Told you some answers are the targets of your body and its. What you want to drink here i dont look i mean im asking you these are judged until this question i see my own guys asian and scotland as my digital ok im fundamentally so 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 conflict of interest do you think theres going to continue as i said to you think you are trying to create a measure of our fun site of interest about stuff like youre trying to do you think there is one no we are as one source are you have sponsors again thats its a different model than a mob or to establish claim on your 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 your house for us i want an option of this crazy government discourse responses and the experts and some companies and some companies at 9 oclock. Am bring us starbucks. Some big brand names. We had to insist since the sixtys cocacola has been paving the way for other multinationals. The be. Willing. To take it that. Something seems wrong. Just dont. Get to shape out just become educated and in the game because the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. The world is driven by dreamers shaped by the curse of those with. No dares thinks. We dare to ask. What politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president or injury. Or somehow want to be rich. Which is going to be for us this is what the before 3 in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the waters of knowledge. There should be more. Open today there are good terrorists and bad veterans the bad terrorists and those in yemen who the United States deems to be a threat the looked at those who work 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 theres no cones anymore because theres always a small cultural or religious code thats. A prophet. But what if the so did john to really have decided to change a few months ago upon the inching its program for a World Without waste the Company Announced a set of very ambitious measures to resolve the. Stick 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 reuse. 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 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 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 materials used the problem is that we cycled and renewable plastic are 2 very different things. To decrypt this so the giants jogen we arranged a meeting with an ngo the. Hes 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. To keep poor job just sort of the visit of the maids i mean the mess they are in. Supply of a country. Lets go. Back to the 11th 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 vegetarian. 6 feet. That soon will set for the plastic or sickly. Or leaves day when youve owned at 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 off 1st and foremost a marketing ploy to ensure that the consumer keeps buying their plastic bottles. Its. One of us the clash. Sabbats protests were so long that sanju wouldve called. Tele. The tool of college casale 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. 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 while theyre promising the exact opposite in their public pledges sit. On the tablet. The ties in nicely. 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. Posit 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 here nice to be its nearly thank you very much for looking out the center thank you thank you like knots. And this gentleman is called a send 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 the typical quote battles about this this big green translucent all riskless. Over is flawless. And donna 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 breaks through 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 c. Nikken clean less than 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 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 weight plastic. I watch them slowly introducing the plastic bottles easy go feel could call of outlets for want i even remember clearly one time going to hold going allman to same to bridget my wife as a theyre going to 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 add 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 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 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 this waste. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy Going Foundation let it be an arms race is on very Dramatic Development only really going to exist i dont see how that strategy will be successful in a very critical time to sit down and talk. 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