Japan Vending Machines Accept Charitable Donations

Vending machines in Japan are offering drinks with a side of good deeds.

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Japanese Red Cross installed donation boxes into about 100 vending machines last month around Chiba, Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Instead of getting change back, a button allows a customer to donate it to the Japanese Red Cross earthquake and tsunami relief fund.

One hundred percent of the money collected will go toward relief efforts, according to Japantrends.com.

Throughout Japan, vending machines number about one for every 23 people,making it the country with the highest number of vending machines per capita, reports Japantrends.com.

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Comments

[London Reader]

07:29 AM on 07/15/2011

Green Coke!
Coca Cola is really out on a sustainable campaign. I was just reading this really interesting article about a green billboard that Coca Cola have launched in Asia. The billboard is made out of tea trees, grown in used coke bottles and fixed to the billboard.

Here is the link to the picutre of the billboard: http://www.thewritefuture.typepad.com/

[Bdgold]

04:43 PM on 07/14/2011

As opposed to selling beer and p0rn. Ah, I miss Japan...

[sillyfrog]

04:31 PM on 07/14/2011

Cool.:)

[LiberalScoop]

04:31 PM on 07/14/2011

That's a tremendous idea! My hat is off to the Japanese social consciousness and their ingenuity.

[ramal]

04:28 PM on 07/14/2011

Perhaps we could do something like this in America for the National Debt?

[sillyfrog]

04:33 PM on 07/14/2011

Maybe something like the Irish Sweepstakes would work here.

[ATLBravesFan]

04:51 PM on 07/14/2011

Definitely!

Also...veterans, homeless, victims of disasters (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.).

I think it's a good idea :-)