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Don’t you hate when you go to the cleaners and you get the hanger marks in your clothes?  Well in Canada they are moving away from that with biodegradable hangers.  As a way to help promote green jobs and promote green awareness, a company in Canada is providing these recycled paper hangers free of charge to dry cleaners, hotels, retail stores and fitness centers. (http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/50998/)

Once again, this everyday used item is another small movement to slowly helping in conserving our natural resources, but will business use this source of advertising to help this company survive.  The concept is a great concept but with the economic downturn, businesses are not spending advertising dollars.  Something so little can make a huge impact on reducing the carbon footprint by just the elimination of 1 wire hanger.

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