Can you recycle wire coat hangers?

Wire hangers are tanglers that wrap around kerbside sorting machinery, so keep them out of your recycling bin. Dry cleaners often take them back for reuse, and any recycling centre will take them as scrap metal. Bend them flat before transporting a big bundle.

Tips

• Return them to the dry cleaner
• They're the classic sorting-machine tangler — never kerbside

Which bin does it go in?

Dry cleaners reuse them; scrap-metal skip otherwise — never kerbside

Before throwing it away, see reuse, repair and donation routes.

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