National Public Radio’s "Morning Edition" had a story on the rise in prices for wire hangers today (Costs Up, So Dry Cleaners Want Their Hangers Back). People don’t usually have enough hangers to bother with cashing them in through a metal recycling company. So, most people throw them away and some recycle them. With the price going up for hangers, we might consider helping dry cleaners out by returning them to be reused. Not only would the hangers be recycled through re-use, but the energy required to melt them down and refashion them into some other product could be saved.