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

Date: 1942
Period: Second World War
Made by: Ministry of Supply, printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wm. Brown & Co. Ltd., London
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
Themes: Home front, Economy and finance
Event: World War II
Regime: Churchill wartime government
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)
Ministry of Supply / H.M. Stationery Office, 1942. U.S. National Archives (RG 44), World War II Foreign Posters.

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