Meanwhile In Viet Nam

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Vietnamese police to investigate condom recycling factory
Sep. 24, 2020


HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese police said they will investigate a factory that was found recycling about 320,000 used condoms for resale, local media reported Thursday.

Following a tip from a local resident, Binh Duong provincial market inspectors over the weekend raided a factory near Ho Chi Minh City where they found used condoms being repacked for sale at the market, the state-owned Tuoi Tre newspaper reported.

A market inspector said the owner of the factory, a 34-year-old woman, confessed that they bought the used condoms from a man in the province. The condoms were washed, reshaped and packed into plastic packages, the newspaper said.

It said police announced they will investigate and track down others involved in the operation. A call to police for comment was not answered Thursday.

The newspaper quoted a health official as saying the recycled condoms posed an extreme health risk to users.

[ex-khobar Andy]

Yes - one report I saw of this story (can't find it now) said that they paid $0.17 (IIRC) for a kilo of used condoms. I don't know if that was a net weight or a gross weight. Gross weight of course includes the contents of said previously utilized prophylactics, which may be where the term comes from.

[Joe Guy]

Binh on Dong Provincial Inspectors...

[MGMcAnick]

Gross weight of course includes the contents of said previously utilized prophylactics, which may be where the term comes from.

Gross? Yes. Sounds plausible.
Also sounds very entrepreneurial for a communist country.

[Bicycle Bill]

Reminds me of the joke about what you can do with 365 used condoms.
.......................................................................Recycle the rubber to make a tire and call it a Goodyear.

Then sell it to Jarlaxle, who will buy it because it wasn't make in China.

-"BB"-

[Joe Guy]

I assume they need studded condoms to make snow tires.

[ex-khobar Andy]

Some tire companies maintain that you can really feel the road through their tires. I'm beginning to understand how they do this.

[MajGenl.Meade]

But the blowouts are really risky

[Big RR]

Well, it does put new spin on the slogan, "where the rubber meets the road."