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Clothes or coat hangers can be made from various materials – wood, metal or plastic. If you don’t need them they can often be donated to charity shops who will use them again or some retailers who will recycle them.

If they are broken try contacting your local council as local recycling centres have recycling containers for wood, metal and plastic where they could be recycled.

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