GOING PLASTIC-FREE AT HOME: In some areas, curbside ♻️recycling will accept metal clothes hangers. Unfortunately, most recycling centers are not prepared to handle the pointy edges of the hanger that can easily damage their sorting machines. Before placing any metal clothes hangers in your recycling bin, please confirm that your program accepts them. . Keep in mind, plastic and wooden hangers are much less likely to be accepted in your curbside bin. . Just because your local recycling program accepts “scrap metal” or “all plastic,” think twice before just dropping those clothes 👗👕👚 hangers into your bin. . Double check with your recycling services to make sure they can handle them otherwise your entire recycling bin may be dumped into the trash pile. 🏹THE STATS: ❗Only 15% of the 8-10 billion plastic coat hangers produced each year are recycled. ❗The remaining 85% usually end up in landfills. ❗Most plastic hangers are made of #6 plastic (polystyrene) or #7 plastic (polycarbonate). ❗Once they’re in the landfill grave, they’ll take upwards of 1,000 years to breakdown. ❗Break down means leaching toxic chemicals like Benzene and BPA into the soil. 🤒☠️ . Xo Angie 🌎💘☮️ . #goingplasticfreeathome #plasticfreetip #plasticfreeeveryday #plasticfreecloset #ditchtheplastic #wastefreeproducts #skipplasticclotheshangers #reuse #repurposewhenpossible
