The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicting a Vickers Wellington bomber, this poster is designed to show the value of waste metal, waste paper, waste rubber and bones in the making of a bomber aircraft. This poster was all part of a series of campaigns such as 'Saucepans for Spitfires' that encouraged Britons to recycle and boost morale by making them feel like they were actively playing a role in the war effort.
During the Second World War, to lighten the pressures of production for civil resources and thus allow greater resources to be pulled into war-related production, most governments around the world put
British poster depicting a rescue launch. The poster highlights different items such as scrap metal, waste paper, and bones, and how these items can be salvaged (recycled) into a rescue launch.
British Second World War poster depicting an image of a rescue launch vessel , used to encourage the salvage and recycling of materials such as scrap metal, rope, string, twine, waster paper, scrap ru
