Luxurious air in a jar, anyone?.
A family in England is making a decent profit from selling bottled countryside air to heavily polluted China. Think of it as the Empire of breathing.
The Hunger Games: Catching Air
Air farming, which entails catching quality air in nets, bottling it inside of jars to be shipped to polluted and smog ridden areas like Beijing, is actually rather lucrative. The family sells the jars for £80 ($115) and have already sold about 100 jars.
Customers can request the air be captured from particular areas like Dorset, Somerset, and Wales.
Leo de Watts, founder of Aethaer explained during a live interview with Sky News that his product can also be used for gift giving as a sign of prosperity.
.@skygillian speaks to the founder of @Aethaer, which sells British air in jars for £80 each https://t.co/XEyqbpytGC https://t.co/9E2jD8nIfS
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 14, 2016
To commemorate the Chinese New Year, a 15-jar gift set is on sale for £888 ($1,200).
The process is quite intricate. See it for yourself.
These bottles of air cost $115 each.And people are actually buying them.
Posted by INSIDER on Wednesday, February 17, 2016
While Aethaer is a growing international business, what do Americans have to say about it?
Anyone else ready to quit their day job?
