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RTR that made me laugh, however what I have done in the past is given coat hangers charity shops and people who sell clothes at car boot sales.
As for socks, I now put them in net bags and what goes in the washing machine comes back out.

Rollo :-D :-D :-D I am sure my coat hangers are breeding.

Sceptics may mock, but it is an undeniable fact that more socks enter the laundry room than ever leave it. Whether they are somehow transmogrified in the warm and humid atmosphere, or there is some sort of sock eradication programme at work, is not clear. It may even be that the socks plan escape, Colditz style. If that is so, some are evidently successful and possibly in league with members of a similar disappearance-prone species, the biro. Others seem to take a wrong turning, and end up tucked in a distant corner of a little-used quilt cover or pillowcase. It has even been suggested that they are in fact the larval form of other multiplying tribes, such as wire coat hangers. These and other theories are explored in an Entry entitled Preventing Sock Loss, and Researchers trying to track down particular socks may need to refer to The Bureau of Missing Socks.
HHGTTG

My Mum used the smaller ones to make peg bags with. I am still using one that is on its last legs but I have a spare.

Family, friends and small local charities all benefitted from her endeavours. <3

Thanks, I will keep looking then.

Our local independant dry cleaners has a box just inside the door where you can leave coathangers, so we send any surplus there. Broken ones just have to go in the rubbish bin.

You might have to keep them until more places open up, but then could try local based charity shops ( the big national ones tend to want their standard ones)

Another outlet might be amateur dramatic groups, nursing homes or even primary schools, if they have a dressing-up collection of clothes.
Students going off to uni. might use them?

Before lockdown, there would often be a box outside some of the shops in town and an invite to people to help themselves to surplus hangers. If they have a strong construction with a decent shoulder formation, someone might be glad of them.

Are they the plastic and metal type, that you might get with chain store clothing?
If so, I don't think they can be recycled, as in the plastic and metal being recovered and reused.

on recycling coat hangers? I guess they are going to have to go into the ordinary waste bin. Can imagine they will be around for a few years, definitely won't rot down. But nobody wants them.