Put Out Your Waste Rubber for Salvage
Drawings of a perished shoe with a hole in its sole, a hot-water bottle, a toy elephant and a rubber block sit above red lettering telling householders to put out waste rubber for salvage. The tell for plain-folks is the use of everyday household objects to make a national collection a personal chore; the poster gives no reason why rubber is needed.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- H.M. Stationery Office (printed by Stafford & Co. Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
H.M. Stationery Office; printed by Stafford & Co. Ltd., c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
PUT OUT YOUR WASTE RUBBER FOR SALVAGE Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Stafford & Co. Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham: 51-2365
