Republican Senator Susan Collins is being sent coat hangers in the mail by abortion rights activists keen to encourage her to vote down any Supreme Court nominees who would threaten Roe v. Wade.

Family-run, Springdale Cleaners in Ohio has for five years returned clean clothes to customers with a hanger cover which reads: 'Choose Life' and has a picture of the owner's baby granddaughter.

Plastic hangers can take up to 1,000 years to break down in landfills. ... sustainable clothes hanger has compared the plastic ones, which are difficult to recycle, to "plastic straws".