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Germany/Poland: Dirty Laundry into Clean Cash

June 19, 2013

Berlin’s top hotels are whirling their washing off to Poland. Gryfino - a small polish town just across the border - is turning Berlin’s dirty laundry into cash.

https://p.dw.com/p/18tDY
In our globalized world there are many examples of services being carried out in towns in countries next door. Gryfino is just one of these. 500 employees - most of whom are women - work here almost round the clock. Next year the size of the workforce is expected to increase by about 100 jobs. In a region where unemployment rates are high the cross-border laundry business seems like a blessing.