According to The Daily Green website, only 15% wire clothes hangers are recycled; 75% end up in landfills.
Retailers, dry cleaners, and hospitality locations toss billions of hangers annually. If we do our small part in reusing and recycling them, it can make a big difference.
If you’ve locked the keys in the car with the window slightly open you can use the hanger to fish them off the seat and bring them through the window.
Wire hangers are great for unclogging drains, both toilet, and sink. You can go fishing around in the drain and try to remove the obstruction.
Keep some around the house for those emergency prodding and poking situations that require a sturdy bit of thin wire. For example, they’re handy for getting things that are out of reach in cupboards.
Make S-shaped hooks using a wire cutter to cut the hanger and then pliers to create the shape.
Make an instant toilet paper hanger.
Bend it into shape to use as a paper towel holder.
Create a paint strainer frame. Pull the hanger into a roughly round shape and cover it with a panty-hose leg. Once used, just toss away the pantyhose and keep the frame to use another day.
To reduce static cling, run a wire hanger between the garment and your skin.
Recycle Wire Clothes Hangers: Gardening
Bend the hanger to make a plant hanger for a pot.
If you have enough, you could use them to make a trellis frame for climbing plants.
Create simple topiary forms using those surplus hangers.
Make a water-dowsing tool. Take two coat-hangers and bend into 90 degrees, making one “arm” twice as long as the other.
Recycle Wire Clothes Hangers: Arts and Crafts
Make picture easels and frames with hangers.
Bend the hanger into a bubble wand. Pour bubble soap into an old ice cream lid or other large shallow dishes, dip the wand in and have fun.
Hangers are great for making mobiles to hang over babies’ beds.
Make a net. Bend the hanger into a circle and stretch old pantyhose around it. Kids can take this to look for little fish in a stream, or sift out seashells at the beach.
Get ready for the next holiday using your hangers. Bend them to make wreaths and then decorate them with seasonally appropriate materials.
Use it has a holder for your hot glue gun or soldering iron. Bend the hanger in the middle through the handle and then fold up each corner into an M-shape.
If you knit or crochet, you can use up those little bits of yarn you have and turn your hangers into padded and decorative ones.
Turn a wire coat hanger and shower curtain into a photographer’s light diffuser.
