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title: We Want Your Kitchen Waste
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-we-want-your-kitchen-waste-1939/
description: A smiling, winking cartoon pig rests a trotter on a dustbin lid tagged 'Pig Food' beneath the headline 'We want your kitchen waste'.
section: Collection
---

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[![We Want Your Kitchen Waste, 1939 UK poster: A smiling, winking cartoon pig rests a trotter on a dustbin lid tagged 'Pig Food'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-we-want-your-kitchen-waste-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-we-want-your-kitchen-waste-1939.jpg)

# We Want Your Kitchen Waste

A smiling, winking cartoon pig rests a trotter on a dustbin lid tagged 'Pig Food' beneath the headline 'We want your kitchen waste'. The small-print rules and 'Your council will collect' make the request a routine household chore, and the friendly animal stands in for the government asking (plain-folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
We want your
KITCHEN WASTE

PIG FOOD

KEEP IT DRY, FREE FROM GLASS, BONES, TINS, ETC.
IT ALSO FEEDS POULTRY... YOUR COUNCIL WILL COLLECT

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FOSH & CROSS LTD., LONDON. 51-2070.

[signature in the artwork:] Gilroy
```

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