The answer is yes and no! To dispose of them they cannot be placed in the yellow bin because of what type of plastic the coat hanger is made of, which is a problem for normal households.
At the moment the instructions from Ecoembes (the recycling company here in Spain) are to take them to a local recycling centre. The nearest one here is on the Poligono in Ciutadella, they are open in the mornings until around 13.00 and in the afternoons from 15.00 until at least 18.00. There is a new system in place where you have to register and then everytime you drop something off, if you are in a car, there is a weighing system when you enter and when you leave!
The ideal solution is to buy wooden or cardboard coat hangers, so when they do break then they can disposed of easily.
On a larger scale there are companies available to arrange recycling, however I have not found any in Menorca.
There are companies in UK but they only recycle plastic coat hangers – not wooden hangers or metal. Your coat hangers need to be 100% plastic although the metal hook parts are absolutely fine.
After they are collected and taken to the plant the following happens:
Shred the coat hangers
They use special machines to shred your plastic coat hangers into tiny pieces at their licensed recycling facilities.
Granulation
Lastly, they granulate the plastic coat hangers after shredding. This lets the plastic be reprocessed and used as new products.
So really they are not recyled but are reused to make different products. I suppose it is better than them filling up landfill sites.
I do find that plastic coat hangers seem to last for ever! Also I keep inheriting them which is good so at least they are being recycled in some form.
The blog song for today is "crazy little thing called love" by Queen
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