Fiji Care launches Reverse Vending Machine & BOOLA App where people can gain points and redeem them for products and services

Fiji Care launches Reverse Vending Machine & BOOLA App where people can gain points and redeem them for products and services

By Iva Danford
Thursday 09/12/2021
[photo: Fijian Government]

Fiji Care has launched their new Reverse Vending Machine and BOOLA App where people can gain points and redeem them for products and services.

Executive Director Avi Raju says the BOOLA App will allow people to accumulate points for all the PET bottles and aluminium cans that they put into the vending machine.

Raju says these points can then be redeemed for products and services.

He says it does not need to be health care products alone but can be any other product or service.

Raju says for them, they will be giving away redemptions such as diabetes testing and general health checkups.

He says they are in discussions with other vendors and corporate entities who are ready to partner with them with the range of products and services that they can offer through their BOOLA e-wallet.

While officiating at the launch, Acting Prime Minister and Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says there needs to be a partnership with the private sector in this initiative as cans and plastic bottles are produced by them.

Sayed-Khaiyum says Fiji Care is the first private company to step up in a tangible manner and come forward to address the issue of how do we have a responsible attitude towards the disposal of PET bottles and aluminium cans.

He says hopefully this initiative will inculcate some sense of responsibility in the wider private sector community.

The Acting Prime Minister says people like to be rewarded for something and if they can show people that they will be rewarded if their put bottles and cans into the vending machines and get rewarded, people will become much more proactive.



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