No More Wire Hangers!

By Miss Cellania in Home & Garden on Mar 8, 2008 at 1:26 pm

The Becohanger by Wannabeco is a new clothes hanger made from environmentally-friendly carboard. It is completely biodegradable, and may replace wire hangers in Britain.

“Each year 100 million wire coat hangers are put into UK landfill where they take centuries to degrade – it is this we are trying to prevent,” said Alexander Beattie, Head of marketing at Wannabeco.

“We have worked out a way to alleviate this problem as well as provide an innovative and ecologically friendly media space for our advertising clients”.

Yes, the hangers will be paid for by advertisers, and distributed to dry cleaners. The ads will be printed with environmentally-friendly ink. Link -via Fark

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Sofar
Mar 8th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I never throw away my wire hangers, though. Even when they get bent out of shape I just unravel them and use them to keep a chair from falling apart. What’s the point of biodegradable versions of stuff you never really throw away?

Also around here the recycling plant takes them.
Orjans Morjan
Mar 8th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Exactly, never heard of metal recycling?
eecue
Mar 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Won’t somebody think of the back-alley abortionists?

Ok that wasn’t cool, sorry.
Skipweasel
Mar 8th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
It’s not the wire ones that are the problem, it’s the plastic sort. I leave them at the shop. We have little use for hangers here – the whole house works on the “One pile for everything, everything in the pile” system.
Katey
Mar 9th, 2008 at 1:35 am
“Environmentally Friendly Ink”=Soy Ink=not really that great! Soy is, as you all surely know, a commonly GM monocultre plant which’s cultivation in America is highly dependant on petroleum-based chemical fertilizers and artificial irrigation.

In addition to this, it’s not really the BASE of the ink that’s toxic anyways- the Soy inks still use the same heavy-metal based, toxic pigments.
Alex
Mar 10th, 2008 at 4:41 am
No wire hangers? Channeling Joan Crawford, Miss C?
Ashley
Mar 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Wire hangers are only wasteful if you throw them away, and why would you do that? It’s not like they wear out. If you don’t abuse them, they should last practically forever.

I’ve had the same wire hangers for 30 years and I’ve never thrown one away (although I’ve had to buy a few new ones as my wardrobe got larger).
Kathleen
Mar 11th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
hmmm….hangers paid for advertisers. I sure hope the ink doesn’t run onto the clothing that was freshly dry cleaned.

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