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    "Trash supermarket" debuts in South Korea: take empty plastic bottles to go shopping

    • Last Update: 2022-08-17
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    A "junk supermarket" where you can use your points to buy points with discarded beverage cans or plastic bottles is making its debut in Kor.


    World Wildlife Fund (WWF), SuperBin, Coca-Cola, e.


    In this "garbage supermarket", after citizens bring cans or plastic bottles into the recycling robot, the robot will take pictures through the camera to identify the types of cans and plastic bottl.


    One can earn 15 points (15 won), and one plastic bottle earns 10 points (10 wo.


    Points can be used like cash, and all goods and services in the junk supermarket can be purchased with poin.


    The 80-square-meter store sells clothes such as T-shirts, bags made from old firefighting suits, as well as sesame oil and sesame see.


    Zheng Shurong, an activist for the World Wildlife Fund, said, "If we can properly use a large number of plastic bottles and cans, they will become urban resources that create weal.


    According to the plan of the World Wildlife Fund, as of September 5, the garbage supermarket will be in trial operation for about 3 months, and then decide whether to expand the operation according to the resul.


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