Take a look around your closets at home and what do you see the most of?  Hopefully not those ’70’s disco clothes and shoes you’re still holding onto!  The most common item found in most closets is the wire coat hanger. The Organic Consumers Association estimates that 3.5 billion wire hangers are used each year by the dry cleaning industry alone. As these are generally made of steel, this amounts to 195 million pounds of steel used for production.  Since steel is one of the more easily recycled products, you would think that there was a happy answer here, but the hanger network estimates that about 3.5 Billion hangers end up in the landfill each year.  That’s about 60,000 cars!  Wire hangers also take about 100 years to decompose in the landfill.  So what can we do? Read More