--- description: The fresh air comes from the Rocky Mountains title: A Company Is Selling Bottled Canadian Air to China image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8855fbf2b1230316/698875b58e06013a52463cc8/bottled-oxygen.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Company Is Selling Bottled Canadian Air to China by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 16, 2015 7:33 PM CUT  Courtesy of Vitality Air by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 16, 2015 7:33 PM CUT A Canadian startup company thinks it has a solution to [China’s severe smog problem](http://time.com/4140115/china-pollution-environment-beijing-industry-smog/ "undefined"): It’s selling [bottled clean air](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/15/asia/china-canadian-company-selling-clean-air/index.html?sr=fbcnni121615china-canadian-company-selling-clean-air0555AMStoryLink&linkId=19624512 "undefined") from the Rocky Mountains. The company Vitality Air says it sold out its first batch of 500 canisters of fresh air from the town of Banff and it’s taking orders for the next shipment of 1,000 bottles, CNN reports. Prices range from $14 to $20 per bottle, depending on the size. While smog is a very serious problem in China right now—a “red alert” due to poor air quality closed schools in Beijing last week—experts believe filtration, not importation, is the answer. \[[_CNN_](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/15/asia/china-canadian-company-selling-clean-air/index.html?sr=fbcnni121615china-canadian-company-selling-clean-air0555AMStoryLink&linkId=19624512 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4152049/china-pollution-canada-bottled-air/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4152049/china-pollution-canada-bottled-air/"},"headline":"A Company Is Selling Bottled Canadian Air to China","datePublished":"2015-12-16T19:33:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:26:33.889Z","description":"Prices range from $14 to $20 per bottle","url":"https://time.com/4152049/china-pollution-canada-bottled-air/","keywords":["China"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8855fbf2b1230316/698875b58e06013a52463cc8/bottled-oxygen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8855fbf2b1230316/698875b58e06013a52463cc8/bottled-oxygen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"bottled-oxygen","caption":"","creditText":"Courtesy of Vitality Air","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4152049/china-pollution-canada-bottled-air/","name":"A Company Is Selling Bottled Canadian Air to China"}}]}] ```