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![Canned Air in China](https://img.money.com/2016/05/gettyimages-160859200.jpg)
*Chen Guangbiao, Chairman of Jiangsu Huangpu Recycling Resources Co., presents his company's product canned fresh air at Beijing Financial Street on January 30, 2013 in Beijing, China.*

Just outside of Sydney, Australia, Bondi beach is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country, famous for surfing and [Olympic beach volleyball](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5cfB6jWjg).

It's also one of the places some enterprising Australians are collecting and pressurizing air into cans to be sold in China. And [despite this sounding suspiciously similar to a scene from Mel Brooks' 1987 *Star Wars* parody *Spaceballs*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U), people in China are actually buying it.

Green & Clean Air bottles Australian air in a few other locations besides the beach, including the Blue Mountains and the Gold Coast, with each $20 bottle holding around 130 breaths, according to [Sydney's 7News](https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31486601/entrepreneurs-selling-air-from-iconic-aussie-locations-to-smog-clogged-chinese/). The different locales smell a bit different—the mountains apparently carry a slight perfume of eucalyptus (koala food, after all)—and the beach, well, smells like the beach.

The crazy thing is that this [isn't just a novelty product](http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/entrepreneur/australian-entrepreneurs-sell-cans-of-clean-air-to-china-20160502-gojugx). According to a Chinese personal shopper in Australia interviewed by 7News, the rampant air pollution back home is enough to actually create demand for a breath of the fresh stuff.

This isn't the first time canned air has sold in China. Last year, a Canadian company selling air from the Rockies reportedly was selling out [in smog-heavy Chinese cities](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/12051354/Chinese-buy-up-bottles-of-fresh-air-from-Canada.html), and a Chinese recycling magnate handed [out canned air in 2013](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-cans-idUSBRE90T0LM20130130).

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