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title: 'Notice: Waste Rubber Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-notice-waste-rubber-must-not-be-destroyed-1942/
description: A text-only legal notice under the royal arms cites Salvage of Waste Materials Order No. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Notice: Waste Rubber Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse

A text-only legal notice under the royal arms cites Salvage of Waste Materials Order No. 4 of 7 September 1942 and warns that anyone disregarding it is liable to prosecution. The royal arms lend state authority to the order (transfer); the small print states the reason as a serious shortage of rubber.

## 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

```
NOTICE

Under the Salvage of Waste Materials Order No. 4.
made by the Minister of Supply S.R.O. 1942/No. 1770
dated 7th September, 1942

WASTE
RUBBER
MUST NOT BE
DESTROYED
THROWN AWAY OR MIXED WITH REFUSE
Any person disregarding this Order
is liable to prosecution

It is an offence to burn Rubber.  Owing to the serious shortage the strictest
economy in the use of Rubber is essential. Every scrap of waste Rubber that
is not required for necessary purposes should be disposed of for Salvage.

S. & R.B. 87.
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by C. & E. Layton Ltd., London E.C.4  51.2744.
```

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