It’s hard to believe but The Hanger Network can attribute the start of their company to a stain on a carpet. J.D. Schulman, COO of The Hanger Network was once throwing away a bunch of wire hangers that had been compiling in his closet from his local dry cleaner. After cleaning his closet J.D. began to walk across his mothers white carpet and suddenly the hangers punctured the bag dripping gravy all over her new carpet

J.D. soon conceptualized a replacement for the wire hangers that could be thrown away once you had taken off that freshly cleaned dry cleaning garment. The prototype for the eco-friendly hanger quickly went from concept to realty when they found a way to produce a sturdy alternative to wire hangers for dry cleaners everywhere.

Dry Cleaner Hangers 100% Recyclable

The hangers are one hundred percent recyclable and could displace large amounts of wire hangers that are used by dry cleaners everywhere. Sir Austin has well documented his love for customers who recycle their hangers and he loves this idea even more. Dry cleaners in the U.S. use over 3.5 billion coat hangers a year and what ever we can do to limit them ending up in landfills is a great idea

Hanger Network has even found a way to make the hangers free for the dry cleaners who use them and this is by selling advertising on the hangers themselves. The dry cleaning hangers are paid for by advertisers in all types of businesses. Dry cleaning hangers can cost as much as 8-12 cents a hanger and as with any other business dry cleaners are always looking for ways to cut costs.

The Hanger Network already has national companies lining up to buy ads. From the companies standpoint the program is a symbiotic one for both Hanger Networks and the dry cleaners participating in the advertising program. Schulman states “it was a no brainier. Dry cleaners are always looking for ways to save money and with the explosion of green dry cleaners in the U.S. many of them are looking for ways to make their businesses more eco-friendly as well.”

Eco Friendly Hangers Go National

So far the company has partnered mostly with cleaners in the New York metropolitan area but now they are expanding nationwide. Cleaners Supply, one of the largest dry cleaning product distributors in the world has started to offer dry cleaners the hangers on the homepage of their website.

Sir Austin gives The Hanger Network two green thumbs up for helping to make more Eco Friendly dry cleaners in the world.

Below is a Great Video on Eco Hangers