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Next Green Thing: Housecleaners Co-Op
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, September 16, 2008.
Many of the things we use to wash bathrooms, unblock drains, and clean our kitchens contain toxic ingredients. Lurking underneath many kitchen cabinets are chemicals hazardous to your health. For professional cleaners - many of whom are women, and many of them immigrants - daily, repeated exposure can cause sickness.
There are safer alternatives. Clean and green are the new watch-words for many household products advertised on TV these days, but getting the word out to non-English speaking workers can be difficult. That's where a house-cleaning co-op in Boston comes in, as Catherine Elton reports for public radio's Living on Earth. Click here to listen.
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