Chinese factory shreds wedding photos for fuel
The Peninsula
Langfang, China: At a dusty warehouse in northern China, Liu Wei feeds photos of beaming bridal couples into an industrial shredder turning stories...
Langfang, China: At a dusty warehouse in northern China, Liu Wei feeds photos of beaming bridal couples into an industrial shredder -- turning stories of heartbreak into a source of electricity.
Wedding photos are big business in China, where parks, temples and historic sites often teem with newlyweds posing for elaborate shots capturing their supposedly unbreakable bond.
But in a country where millions of divorces take place each year, many marital snaps end up shoved into the attic or tossed into the trash.
Liu's company offers an alternative: bereft ex-lovers can have their memories destroyed and recycled into fuel.
"From our daily business exchanges, we found the destruction of personal belongings is a blank space nationwide," the 42-year-old told AFP at his factory, 120 kilometres (75 miles) from Beijing.
