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Friday, March 8, 2013

Shanghai 101: Week 8

I have a couple of follow-ups from Shanghai 101 from previous weeks, and a few new ones.

1.  Dog in a puffy coat.  I scored a photo, but not a great one.  I'll try harder in the future.  Apparently dogs aren't used to people talking to them, and pay them no attention.
I WILL get a better picture.
2.  Jammers.  On adults in the middle of the day.  Sheer awesomeness.
Wearin' Jammers, biking, and smoking.
Shout-out to our peeps in Oz - she's rocking
her koala jammers.

3.  There are people who go around the city - at all hours of the day and night - on bikes with truck-beds on the back and they ring a hand-held bell constantly.  We used to think that they were signally to the local residents to bring trash/recycling/something out...but we have NEVER seen anyone give the guys on the bikes anything.  So, now we have no idea what they are doing, and why they are ringing that darn bell.

4.  China does a really interesting thing with recycling.  They actually PAY people to bring in recycling.  Every trash bin you pass on the street has a recycle bin right next to it, but not everyone uses it...enter the small business-person.  People literally go around digging in the garbage to pick out the plastic, glass, aluminum, and cardboard.  You see PILES of it...piles and piles of it.  While not very pretty, it makes someone think about one small part of the environment here.

Piles of recyclables around.

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