Items Replacing Paper Money
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1. Bottled Water

We can’t live without H20; assuming we can solve the pesky issue of all the plastic, whether via recycling or reusable containers, bottles of fresh water of various sizes could easily fill the role of a currency , whether in the gyms of Manhattan or the markets of clean water-scarce regions of Africa.

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