World War Two Made A Huge Effort To Encourage Us To Scrap It!
WW2 Posters Encouraging Scrapping and Conservation
According to the National WW2 Museum, Persuading Americans to support the war effort became a wartime industry, just as important as producing bullets and planes. The U.S. government produced posters, pamphlets, newsreels, radio shows, and movies. Part of that effort was to get citizens to conserve resources and contribute to the shortage of much needed items such as metals.
This effort was not just for the US but countries like the UK as well.
This effort was not just for the US but countries like the UK as well.
Some pretty creative images followed world wide as people were encouraged to reuse and conserve many everyday items. Here are some from the US created by the Office of War Information (OWI):
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| WW2 Recycle All MetalsPoster |
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| WW2 Recycle Paper Metal Bones Poster |
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| WW2 Recycle Paper Rags Bones Poster |
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| WW2 Recycle Paper Poster |
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| WW2 Conservation Poster |
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| WW2 Recycle Cans Poster |
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