Lemonade Out of Lemons: Out-of-Work Day Laborers Open Eco-Friendly Cleaning Service in NYC

The New York Times had a nice story last week about women who would wait at a Williamsburg intersection to find work on a day-by-day basis. But there was no work on far too many days for comfort—getting a job for two or three hours at a time was a good thing. So a group of them got together and started their own cleaning service. But not just any service—the Apple Eco-Friendly Cleaning cooperative, which advertises on recycled paper and uses homemade cleaning products based on ingredients like lemon juice, glycerin, borax and fruit oils.

Read more: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/10/out-of-work-day-laborers-open-eco-friendly-cleaning-service.php