Abstract: A molded garment hanger (10, 110) having the form of a generally planar unitary item with a hook (14, 114) or eye integral with a pair of hanger arms (12, 112), said hanger being composed of a single constituent material that is either bagasse or empty palm tree fruit bunches (EFB) that has been subjected to wet process thermoforming by which the material's moisture content is removed (e.g. extracted and/or expressed) whilst the material is subjected to a molding pressure and is being dried, said process providing the molded hanger as a lightweight mono-layer construction, i.e. with an overall weight less than 45 g (preferably of the order of 25 g to 35 g), with a mono-layer thickness less than 1.5 mm (preferably in the range 1 mm to 1.5 mm), and such as to be rapidly biodegradable, i.e. to be capable of total bio-degradation by composting in less than 12 weeks.