I always take wire coathangers back to the dry cleaners they came from - saves waste
Otherwise I have freecycled coat hangers - ours seldom make it to freecycle though as our sons seem to have friends who need coathangers.
I always take wire coathangers back to the dry cleaners they came from - saves waste
Otherwise I have freecycled coat hangers - ours seldom make it to freecycle though as our sons seem to have friends who need coathangers.
Madelaine
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I want the wire ones to replace the wires that have snapped inside some vintage dolls legs at that is exactly what was originally used in them, i had loads at one time, where they all went i dont know
Yes, I'll try other charity shops when I'm passing. I suspect I may have picked a bad day and got a snooty madam.
Yes, I'm told dry cleaners are happy to get back wire coathangers. I hang on to mine, useful for odd jobs and repairs, even though useless for actually hanging clothes on!
Yes, plastic coathangers should not go in your council recyclables, unless you definitely know different for your area. Wooden ones could go in the wood recycling skip at the council tip, but wooden ones are usually quite nice quality.
If you know you have enough hangers at home, when buying new clothes you could hand over the hanger to the shop and of course they would reuse it. Or would they? I've discovered there's a new trend -- many manufacturers are supplying clothes to shops 'GOH'. It's evil. This stands for Garment On Hanger. So such shops have no use for further hangers and if you hand them back they're probably quietly going into the waste stream. Yet another depressing way to screw up the planet. Not an issue for me personally of course -- I never need to buy new clothes. At Christmas some well-intentioned family member is sure to give me yet another beige cardigan. [sigh]
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