Police in Vietnam find 320,000 used condoms being packaged for resale

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/09/25/vietnam-police-found-320-k-used-condoms-cleaned-repackaged-sale/3532901001/

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.

[Rand]

Times are tough.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Recycling!

Seriously, if done right, which they probably weren't, there's not a problem with the concept.

[Nutmeg]

The logistics of this sound amazing. People picked out individual used condoms from various sources of trash, collected them at a central washing facility, and dried and repackaged them? I would think it would be cheaper to just make new ones.

And to think some people say the West lost the war in Việt Nam. Clearly capitalism is alive and well there!

[DINGO Joe]

Recycling!

Seriously, if done right, which they probably weren't, there's not a problem with the concept.

I'm guessing the fail rate of reused Vietnamese condoms is gonna be pretty high. 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Recycling!

Seriously, if done right, which they probably weren't, there's not a problem with the concept.

I'm guessing the fail rate of reused Vietnamese condoms is gonna be pretty high. 

Agreed.  Which is why one (and not the only one) of the things that would need to be done for this wacky scheme to be done right would be to test the condoms for physical integrity before reselling them.  The time and expense of doing so is one reason I doubt it was done right.