Clean Sweep
This entrepreneur used an old remedy to fight an even older problem.
By
Jake Kilroy
What: Rodent-resistant trash bags
Who: Joseph A. Dee of Mint-X Corp.
Where: College Point, New York
When: Started in 2005
Startup costs: $100,000
Joseph A. Dee already co-owned JAD Corp., a plastic bag manufacturer, when he got the idea for trash bags that keep rats out of New York City's garbage. One of JAD's biggest customers had called about a picture in the newspaper. The photo depicted children playing on a sidewalk with garbage bags stacked in the background and rats crawling on the bags.
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