For the past few days, I've realized how I was just constantly so forward looking that it stressed me to the point where the white parts of my eyes turned red.
Then I took a moment to look at the beautiful sunset on my way to 7-11 to get my usually black pepper chicken leg...On my way back to the computer rooms to continue my global marketing project, I saw a photography loving friend sitting on the steps to the building I was heading, facing the sunset. So I decided to say 'HI'. A Hi ended up being a long 45 minute talk about our summers, our attitudes towards getting grades, the subjects we want to take together...it ended when I really had to rush back to start my presentation, but we couldn't help but to gaze at the beautiful color blue mixing gradually with gold.
Anyways, I fell sick today, after I woke up from a nap, it was pretty much time to head to this talk and sharing session about how some young people started a business that helped improve the waste management system. I was really hesitation at first and since I decided to go for a quick jog and shower before I headed off, I felt hungry too.
Not so to my surprise, there were refreshments and cookies. Good ol' IFE always providing refreshments and snacks for attendees. (I helped myself to 2 chocolate cinnamon cookies, soooooo yummy, luckily, my palate can distinguish and dissect the cookie up to its raw ingredients and I secretly made a mental note to remember the recipe.)
To my very surprise, the guest speakers were very entertaining. The moderator came all the way from Shanghai to give speeches about promoting the pollution problems in Asia, and then passed the time to Hanley Li Although he stuttered a bit at first, his story was very entertaining to listen to, about his past as a naughty student, who then took a sudden trip to Egypt and started working in the advertising stream. From then he noticed a problem of the plastic bad problem, whereas in Egypt, they would give a customer a plastic bad per item they bought. How wasteful! Linking this problem to Hong Kong, large grocery stores, convenient stores and most retail stores all charge a $0.5 fee for a plastic bag. However wet markets do not have this charge. This may be because wet markets sell wet food literally fish, meat, vegetables, it would be terrible inconvenient to buy a fish with a ...reusable grocery bag. Just the thought of the blood contamination on the bag is gross.
Hong Kong alone has around 6 million wasted plastic bags, most of them come from wet markets. Hanley did some research and found that the plastic bags that the wet market sellers were buying was 0.05RMB for a bag, while the biodegradable ones were 0.2RMB. Integrating the his advertising background with the thought of biodegradable bags, he decided to seek out advertisers who were willing to have their ad printed on the bags, as he believes that the advertisements could directly target the buying population, housewives, domestic helpers, elderly...Meanwhile, he also sought out wet market sellers and asked them if they were willing to use biodegradable bags with advertisements printed on them, lo an behold formed his company CarryAD.
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