Mainland China has been shrouded in smog recently. In addition to Beijing, many other provinces are also unable to escape the haze. A Canadian company that sells bottled fresh air said that due to the haze in China, the number of Chinese customers has increased recently, and the price of a bottle of fresh air ranges from about 15 to 46 US dollars.
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), two Canadian men have teamed up to launch a start-up that packages fresh air from the Rocky Mountains and sells it to customers in countries with poor air quality, such as China.
The company harvests fresh air from Banff Mountain and Lake Louise, with prices ranging from $15 to $46 depending on bottle size. A bottle of air priced at 15 yuan can be inhaled approximately 150 times, and can be inhaled up to 200 times.
Puckett previously said that he and Moses, the other co-founder of the company, started selling air as a joke. They filled Ziploc bags with air and then sold them on eBay. Lin said that after the air is sealed, the labels are applied. A month later, the first bag of air was sold for 99 cents, and soon after, the second bag was sold for $168.
Company co-founder Moses once told CBC that collecting fresh air is a long and tedious process. "We collected air in Banff for about ten hours, then brought a large amount of air back and filled it into these bottles respectively."
As for how the company gets the air into the bottles, Moses said it's a trade secret. "But I can guarantee that we're not just sitting outside waving our hands and grabbing the air," he said.
In addition to Chinese customers, the company's overseas buyers also include Iran, Afghanistan and other places, most of which are countries with serious air pollution.
As air quality in Taiwan is deteriorating, small and medium-sized enterprises may be able to combine existing technologies and innovative ideas to prevent or solve the possible harm caused by haze to the human body, thereby opening up new environmental business opportunities for enterprises.
Source:Environmental Information Center(2015-12-14)
