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Is a label from a water bottle dishonoring bottle clearly and found amongst the. 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. Just watching the bottle. In front sonny is one 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 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 competence secret strategy which contradicts that convincing. And on up was full of the weight. So if i dont resist starting over effect ive got the political for great 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 we are going to expose the truth behind the socalled recycling economy that coke is trying to promote and thats the model here. Only 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 genea. I got back nice to you nice to meet you yeah really welcome to. You know this is going to 5. And then i doubt what i have to drive is good that i might have come on and 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 past it 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 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 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. One 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 cleanliness of their talents and its serious stuff there even discussing the color of that trash cans. All the. Media is us. 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. And i have the clear well i dont wish to see all of the things about. The character. As it does here we do care and want to fire she. Bendish well you can stop thinking into something by. 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 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 we again as individuals dispose of these packages so cocacola for example one of packaging likely 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 multinational he asked the question a few minutes later who is financing your targets or. No money from us is a harsh article about it and 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 ensure that asserts you think you are trying to create a measure of our fun site of interest about one thing theyre trying to do you think there is one no 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 doing and good humor characters if you were to see see what it says. The thing with your house for us is i want to upset this crazy government discourse rest policies and they have expressed and some companies and some companies at the time. But i only joined more than. Mcdonalds bring us starbucks. Or some real or some big brand names. We had to insist since the 60s cocacola has been hating the way for other multinationals the. Same wrong why dont we all just dont all. Get to shape out these days become educated and in gains from it because of the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. You know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 watching closely watching the hawks. Well you know the pirate thing weve kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. I mean theyre in this small ball and sticks it hard to worship and its scary. And. The little self did big told fish already 90 percent of the dark got a new ball in the collar. You conduct your 15 scoops 75 tons and they do it several times a day with the big screens so now you get an idea of why. We have to understand we can all stay still and just. Be with them this will be is the only going to give our. Im doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have out and enjoy the ocean we have. 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. And. Still. Cocacola promises to put 50 percent recycled plastic in its bottles by 2030 and thats on the globe. Game. Is absolutely doable theres a model there for the chinas a lot of holes in 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 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 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 materials used the problem is that recycled and renewable plastic are 2 very different things. To decrypt the soda giant dog and we arranged a meeting with an ngo that has been interested in the Cocacola Group for a long time. And then bush is a specialist in ocean pollution and shes going to explain how the multinational twists words and statistics. Are best cook at their lab ssage better to put. So the division of the maids i mean the maids they are. Supplied. 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. So im 62. Male. Set for the plastic was sickly on my end our labor day when youve had 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 off 1st and foremost a marketing ploy to ensure that the consumer keeps buying their plastic bottle. Made of course. Sasha sabbats. At sanju wouldve called. Tele. The tool 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. 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 sit. On the tablet. The ties in nicely. Sit out. 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 old bottle that the company has 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 have to reach him nice to be its nearly thank you very much for coming out presenter thank you so here i am knots. And this gentleman is called us and down aked he was with the american environmentalists agency from many years hes also the 1st engineer in the world to investigate the ecological impact of cocacola bottles. Does a very imitation there are smaller the typical quote battles about this this big green translucent all risk less. Obvious to us. Than donny 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 over here comparing the environmentalists impact of last 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 return a bull glass pollutes sea. 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 for you. 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 plaster bottle told you they would and they are not growing its just a 1st step. Soo nice that ted eco plastic bottles playlist and one last question. With this advert for its new plastic bottle released in 1975 cocacola barrys 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 would 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 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 deposit system want is 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. 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