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title: The Garbage That Comes from Your Kitchen (Food Administration)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/garbage-from-your-kitchen-food-administration-1918/
description: A text-only notice in a red-ruled frame tells households that kitchen garbage contains materials for nitro-glycerine, soaps and fertilizers.
section: Collection
---

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# The Garbage That Comes from Your Kitchen (Food Administration)

A text-only notice in a red-ruled frame tells households that kitchen garbage contains materials for nitro-glycerine, soaps and fertilizers, or feeds pigs, and asks them to keep it clean and exclude crockery and glass. Key words are picked out in red. The technique is transfer: war necessity is attached to a household chore.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
THE GARBAGE that
comes from your
Kitchen, even after you have
eliminated all possible
human food, contains materi-
als needed in the manufac-
ture of nitro-glycerine, soaps,
fertilizers and other War
Necessities or makes excel-
lent food for Pigs. Do not
place broken crockery, glass
or other household wastes
in the garbage pail. Keep
the Garbage Clean and see
that it is utilized.

United States Food Administration

[seal: United States Food Administration]
```

Words in red on the sheet: GARBAGE, Kitchen, nitro-glycerine, soaps, fertilizers, War Necessities, Pigs, Keep the Garbage Clean. Hyphenation follows the sheet.

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