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Empty your Closet of Wire Hangers

Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA

Jasmin Malik Chua

By Jasmin Malik Chua
Jersey City, NJ, USA | Sun Mar 23 17:21:00 GMT 2008

Recycle wire hangers


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"No more wire hangers, ever!" screamed Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest. While we'll never know the depths of Crawford's revulsion for those dry-cleaning standbys, she's not alone: About 3.5 billion wire hangers get dumped into U.S. landfills every year, according to the Hanger Network. That's 195 millions pounds of steel-or the equivalent of 60.000 cars.

Instead of pitching your wire hangers into the trash, return them to your dry cleaner, recommends Martha Stewart on her TV show. Alternatively, rid the eyesores from your life completely by encouraging your dry cleaner to use EcoHangers, which are made from 100 percent recycled paperboard and pay for themselves by providing ad space. Nothing to get hung up over there, right Joan? (Don't answer that.)

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