UK firm bets on selling pollution gear to China

London

THE college gardens and leafy parks of Cambridge may seem a world away from the smog-choked streets of Beijing, but one company in the English university town is hoping that will be a selling point.

In a reverse of the more traditional pattern of East-West trade, Cambridge Mask Company is making pollution masks in Britain and selling them to China, where such items are ubiquitous on Beijing's streets.