Green Tip 11: Wire there So Many Hangers?

I can't for the life of me understand why my boyfriend has so many wire hangers instead of durable wood or plastic ones that I am used to.  Personally, if it were up to me I would buy all wood hangers and recycle the wire ones ... which I kind of have been doing, slowly but surely.  He'll never know!

Besides, with cool ideas in how to reuse them like this one from TreeHugger who needs them anyway. So ....


RECYCLE UNWANTED WIRE HANGERS 

Wire hangers are generally made of steel, which is often not accepted by some recycling programs. So what do you do with them? Most dry cleaners will accept them back to reuse or recycle