Airbags!

Bags of fresh air on sale in China to combat pollution problem.

20:46 28 March 2016

Chinese vendors are selling bags of fresh air at a popular hiking spot in the country’s southern Guangdong province. The bagged-up “fresh air” can either be taken home to enjoy or used straight away.

 

Tourists who have gone into the mountains to escape the heavy smog in the city dished out cash to buy the bags of air from the mountain valleys, with many of them opening the bags right away.

 

With heavy smog in lower regions, residents of major cities in the Pearl River Delta are going to mountain valleys hoping to cleanse their lungs.

 

Many tourists gladly took pictures of signs reading: "purchase clean air to purchase a healthy life" and "Unpolluted air - big bags for 30 renminbi (£3) and small bags for 10 renminbi (£1)” which they later shared in social media.

 

The sellers claimed that the air was collected from the "heart of the mountain” and the bags came with flower petals to make the whiff of air more pleasant than usual.