Did you know that each year an estimated 8-10 billion polystyrene [PS] and polycarbonate [PC] plastic and wire hangers are produced and only a small percentage are re-used or recycled? The majority of hangers end up in landfills taking over 1000 years to break down, leeching toxic benzene and bisphenol-A into the ground water.
The dry cleaning industry goes through 3.5 billion wire hangers each year. That is equivalent to 200 million pounds of steel, or 60,000 automobiles. The landfilled waste they create worldwide would fill 4.6 Empire State Buildings each and every year. Hangers are becoming a problem in municipal waste streams with more than 8 billion plastic and metal hangers being discarded each year.
As an alternative to traditional clothes hangers, there are Ditto’s recycled paper clothing hangers. Ditto makes two lines of hangers fabricated from 100% certified recycled paper, with vegetable inks and starch adhesives, and 100% PET plastic, the same plastic used to make water bottles.
“Mega big box companies order up to a billion plastic/wire hangers every year,” explains Ditto President and CEO Gary Barker. “It’s been estimated that only 15% of the hangers are properly recycled. So where do the other hangers go? Into landfills, by the billions. It’s wasteful, it’s toxic, and it just doesn’t make sense.”
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