Homo sapiens

Star Island in Johor.

After giving manicures to several customers in the afternoon, Liu Meizhu stretched and then looked at the time and found that it was already half past four.

She and a few little sisters were sitting on the sofa in the lounge area, chatting and waiting for get off work.

The working hours of Homo Sapien Company are 20 days per month, with only 5 to 6 hours of work on working days. The maximum working hours per month is 120 hours, and special overtime hours should not exceed 20 hours.

Jobs like manicurist are very regular jobs.

While Liu Meizhu and others were chatting, two more customers arrived. They did not refuse service because they were about to get off work.

Because if the customer's service exceeds working hours, they will automatically receive special overtime compensation. Usually, their monthly special overtime quota cannot be used up.

Liu Meizhu did a manicure for a customer at exactly 5:23, just before leaving get off work.

"get off work."

The five employees from the evening shift also arrived one after another.

After leaving the nail salon, Liu Meizhu went to the supermarket with her two little sisters who had a good relationship.

Since the child is placed in a kindergarten by her, she does not need to take care of the child at all now. She visits the child three times a week, and the rest of the time the couple spends their time together.

Liu Meizhu, who was planning to buy a few bags of potato chips to take home, came to the potato chip aisle. She looked at the unfamiliar shelves and asked, "The tomato-flavored potato chips of the previous brand are no longer available?"

After searching carefully, she discovered that it was not gone, but that the packaging had been changed.

Holding the canned version of potato chips, Liu Meizhu asked the shopping guide not far away: "Excuse me, why are there no more bagged Shan potato chips?"

The shopping guide smiled and shrugged: "Now there is no plastic packaging, only cans."

Liu Meizhu scanned the shelves and found that there were only cans or kraft paper cans (with an aluminum film inner layer) left.

Liu Meizhu didn't make a fuss about this.

Mainly supermarkets owned by Homo Sapien Company, many products are cans, kraft paper aluminum film cans, glass bottles, tinplate cans, kraft paper aluminum film bags, and plastic bags are rarely used.

She looked at the price and found that a 500g can of potato chips was still 0.4 yuan.

Moreover, there is a golden number of 0.1 on the can. Liu Meizhu, who often buys things at Fengshuo Home, knows very well that this golden number represents the recycling price of 0.1 yuan.

Most of the packaging containers for many daily necessities and packaged foods produced by Homo sapiens can be recycled and reused.

Liu Meizhu usually takes the accumulated bottles and cans to the recycling bin and sells them every week, which is a lot of income.

Those recycling stations are not shabby garbage dumps, but are set up in shops in various neighborhoods of the city, with dedicated management personnel and automatic recycling machines.

Homo sapiens' profits in the field of prepackaged food are not low, and they benefit from its strong industrial system and recycling industry.

Similar to liquid foods such as milk and juice, Homo sapiens uses glass bottles instead of Tetra Pak packages from the Swedish Tetra Pak Group, so there is no need to pay patent fees to the other party.

In addition, glass bottles can be reused, and the low-temperature glass technology of Homo sapiens is very low-cost. If each glass bottle is recycled once, the packaging cost will be reduced.

After several years of recycling, many glass bottles have now been reused dozens of times, further reducing packaging costs.

After Liu Meizhu took a few cans of potato chips, she pushed the shopping cart to the meat section.

When she came to the meat section, she found that the packaging here had also been changed, but this change was a bit unexpected.

Because a large number of transparent plastic boxes are used here instead of the previous glass boxes and can packaging, and vacuum-packed plastic bags are also used.

Liu Meizhu was confused: "What's going on?"

A shopping guide in the meat section explained: “Because of the emergence of fungi that can decompose plastic, plastic can now be used in fast-selling fresh ingredients and frozen vacuum-packed ingredients.”

"That's it." Liu Meizhu suddenly realized.

Although plastic-decomposing fungi in tropical areas can decompose plastic bags such as polyethylene in about 8 months, it will not have any impact on fresh ingredients with a shelf life of one or two days, or vacuum-packed ingredients stored in ice.

Suddenly Liu Meizhu asked: "Are all plastic products unusable?"

The shopping guide thought for a while: "That's not true, but the service life of chemical fiber clothes, artificial leather, toothbrushes, etc. will definitely be shortened. The company is already thinking of ways, so don't worry too much."

After listening to the shopping guide, Liu Meizhu didn't worry too much, but she still ran to the clothing area on the second floor.

Sure enough, all the clothes marked with chemical fiber are sold at almost ridiculous prices, and you can buy them for only one-tenth of the price.

She had no interest in those chemical fiber clothes at this time and walked directly to the clothing shelves marked with natural materials.

There are clothes made of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and blended fabrics.

Although these fabrics are all labeled as natural materials, it does not mean that they are all truly natural. The natural materials specified by the Homo sapiens company only require that the materials are consistent, and they can be labeled as natural materials.

For example, Liu Meizhu's silk pajamas cost only 15 yuan for a set of four. If real natural silk was used, the price would be at least 60 yuan.

Obviously this is a silk fabric made of artificial silk.

Liu Meizhu directly picked up three sets of silk pajamas that matched her size, and then selected a few sets for her husband and two children.

I also picked up a few sets of worsted clothes made of composite linen. This kind of linen clothes has been treated with modern technology and is almost as soft as cotton, but has less elasticity. It is very comfortable to wear in Southeast Asia.

Then she bought some pig-bristle toothbrushes, worsted towels, and small wooden-framed mirrors.

The pig hairs of pig hair toothbrushes are actually artificial pig hairs. Most of the animal hairs produced by Homo sapiens are technologically imitated.

As for other items, Liu Meizhu plans to go home and discuss them with her husband, then make a list and replace them with natural materials.

She put a lot of things in a special shipping box at the entrance of the supermarket, then directly inserted her employee card and clicked to confirm.

The special shipping boxes are sent to the third floor of the supermarket through the conveyor belt.

Walking out of the street, you can see a long and narrow suspended track above the street. This suspended track is not for passengers, but is specially used to transport items.

The things Liu Meizhu just bought at Fengshuo Home were now put into the freight car.

When Liu Meizhu took the bus back to the downstairs of her residence, a message popped up on her phone shortly after, indicating that the goods had arrived at the temporary storage room on the third floor.

Arriving at the temporary storage room on the third floor, she inserted her employee card into the pickup machine. One of the doors of the storage cabinet automatically popped open, revealing the things she had just purchased at Fenghuo House.

I just took a trolley, put the special transport box on the trolley, and then took the elevator home. As long as the special transport box was placed in the recycling room of the temporary storage room on time, someone from the freight company would come to collect it.

"Husband, I'm back."

Chen Yanxiu, who was taking a bath, asked curiously: "Are you working overtime again today?"

Liu Meizhu stuffed the ingredients into the large refrigerator and replied casually: "No, I just went to the supermarket for a walk. The supermarket has changed a lot of new packaging today. I heard it was the influence of the Tokyo fungus."

"Tokyo Fungus? The same goes for the factory. They are replacing some plastic parts recently. This incident has a big impact."

Chen Yanxiu picked up the long-handled electric bath brush and scrubbed his back.

Liu Meizhu, who was in the kitchen, was about to fry beef patties when the range hood automatically reminded: [Please wear an anti-smoke helmet]

"It's really troublesome..." Liu Meizhu took out a fume-proof helmet from the cabinet below that the property company had sent a few days ago.

Although she complained, Liu Meizhu still wore it because she was afraid of death. According to data released by the Ministry of Medical Care, oil smoke is an important cause of lung cancer in women.

This anti-oil fume helmet is not difficult to wear. The design is similar to an astronaut's helmet. It is almost completely transparent and spherical. It has special brackets fixed on the shoulders and back, and does not require the head to bear weight.

Moreover, during use, Liu Meizhu found that wearing a helmet can protect against splashing hot oil, which is very useful when frying things and chopping onions.

When Chen Yanxiu came out of the shower, he looked at his wife who looked like an astronaut and said with a smile:

"I've heard for some time that real estate companies have to renovate homes with open kitchens in batches. Our kitchen should also need to be renovated."

"How much?"

"No money, the company paid for us."

Liu Meizhu didn't have any objection when she heard that no money was needed.

After all, after reading the public report of the Medical Division, many families are anxious about open kitchens, especially families with children. They either send their children to kindergarten to live temporarily, or simply let their children go outside to the balcony while cooking. Play.

Liu Meizhu, who was frying beef patties, held a wooden spatula: "Honey, the plastic things in your home are made of plastic. Do you want to replace them in the future?"

"It must be replaced. After all, the fungus is very capable of spreading. Southeast Asia is the hardest-hit area, so it will have to be replaced sooner or later."

Liu Meizhu turned the beef patties over: "Then look at what needs to be replaced. I just went to the supermarket to buy clothes made of natural materials, toothbrushes, and a small mirror."

Chen Yanxiu lay on the sofa, turned on his mobile phone, logged into the announcement page of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and found the guide to replacing household plastic products.

According to the list of replacement guides, the first thing to be replaced is mainly the home's electrical circuit system. There is no need to replace it yourself. Nanyang Power Grid will arrange personnel to come and replace it.

Other electrical appliances are also recalled in batches by various manufacturers and gradually replaced with new products.

After watching it for a long time, Chen Yanxiu found that he didn't need to worry too much at all. The company had already arranged everything, and he could just listen to the company's arrangements when the time came.

He continued to lie down and watch TV without any anxiety.

Ordinary people in other areas have to face the problem of aging plastic products in their homes alone, which will increase their living burden.

It is estimated that the number of ordinary people coming to work at Homo sapiens companies will further increase in the future.

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