A couple of entrepreneurs have found an ingenious way of making money out of thin air – selling cans of the ‘clean’ Australian atmosphere to smog-hit China.
Pioneering ‘air farmers’ John Dickinson and Theo Ruygrok developed the technology to capture the “pure” atmosphere in tourist locations Down Under.
Taken from regions where the country’s mountains and beaches are found, the air is pumped into disposable cans containing 130 deep breaths.
Those cans, sold as Pure Gold-Coast Air, Bondi Beach, Blue Mountains, Tassie and Yarra Valley Air, are then flogged to people in China at $20 (£10) a pop.
Mr Dickinson, co-founder of Green and Clean Air, said: “We think our air is good enough to bottle absolutely.
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“Take off the lid, put the lid on the end, the cap fits over the mouth and take a deep breath of pure air.”
Mr Ruygrok added that the cans contain the “smell from the beaches which have some salt in it while the smell from the mountains has some eucalypts”.
Pollution in China has reached unprecedented levels, with several major cities, including Shanghai and Beijing, blighted by thick smog.
Speaking to 7 News, Chinese personal shopper Vivian Zhou said: “The air pollution is very heavy now in China so we all love the pure air from Australia.
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Source: Mirror