{"id":879,"date":"2009-07-23T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2009-07-24T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:25:19","slug":"japanese-companies-lure-women-to-recycle-bras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/2009\/japanese-companies-lure-women-to-recycle-bras.html","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Companies Lure Women to Recycle Bras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess everyone would agree that Japanese are so damn cool &ndash; they come up with the craziest ideas and actually publicize them. The latest eco campaign is by Wacoal, a leading manufacturer of ladies underwear. It seems, they will be recycling bras. No, they won&rsquo;t be reselling used ones to others! They just asked some ladies who shop to drop their unwanted bras in a bag and eventually collected around 35,900 pieces and hooked them together and now they go a length of three times that of the height of Mt Everest and weigh 3.59 tons.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"245\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/PR_867_-_bra_recycling_2_JPG_display.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Decorative picture from watfordobserver)<\/p>\n<p>Another company Triumph didn&rsquo;t want to lag behind so they thought of giving out 50-yen postage stamps per bag as a token of appreciation. The collected bras are processed and recycled into solid fuel.Of course, countries in the west are following this trend. Some even come with a more creative way like this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"369\" height=\"490\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/image_axd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Hahaha, at least the women are doing their part to save the planet.<\/p>\n<p>[Read More From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/shukan-post\/view\/bra-recycling-%E2%80%93-newest-trend-in-eco-consciousness\">JapanToday<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess everyone would agree that Japanese are so damn cool &ndash; they come up with the craziest ideas and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[438,435,434,436,439,437,128],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-bras","tag-companies","tag-japanese","tag-lure","tag-men","tag-recycle","tag-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}