If you're in China and looking for a good deal on food from a restaurant's blind boxes, there's a new app for thatand it's all the brainchild of young people in Beijing, the Straits Times reports.
"The China market is so big and there are different awareness levels, so it takes time to slowly change mindsets," says Luona Cai, a 31-year-old co-founder of Xishi Magic Bag.
The app allows consumers to buy and pick up food from the blind boxes near restaurants' closing times, and it's already been used in 60 cities, including Beijing.
"The people purchasing their meal via an app do not know what is in the box before pickup; it depends on what the shop could not sell on that day," Cai says.
Another startup, Louder, picks up leftover bread from bakeries and turns it into beverages, including beer.
And another, GreenGeek, helps young people start their own green initiatives.
"We need a bigger mass of people being concerned about the environment, and taking action to protect it," says Majid Ghorbani, a professor at the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai.
"Hopefully, being eco-friendly then becomes the norm."
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