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title: 'Notice: Waste Paper and Cardboard Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-waste-paper-cardboard-notice-1942/
description: A text-only statutory notice under the Royal Arms states that waste paper and cardboard must not be destroyed, thrown away or mixed with refuse.
section: Collection
---

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# Notice: Waste Paper and Cardboard Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse

A text-only statutory notice under the Royal Arms states that waste paper and cardboard must not be destroyed, thrown away or mixed with refuse, and that anyone disregarding the Order is liable to prosecution. The tell for fear-appeal is the stated penalty; the poster reports a legal duty rather than a story or image.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
NOTICE

Under the Salvage of Waste Materials Order
No. 2 made by the Minister of Supply S.R.O.
1942/No. 336, dated 25th February, 1942

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

Every scrap of paper that is not required for essential domestic
or other purposes, should be disposed of for Salvage.

Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wm. Brown & Co. Ltd. London, E.C.3  51-2368
```

[← Statement by the General Council on the Vital Need of National Savings (Trades Union Congress 1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-tuc-statement-vital-need-national-savings-1942/) [The Worker Who Left the Lights On! Don't Be Fuel-ish →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-worker-who-left-lights-on-dont-be-fuel-ish-1942/)

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