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Description: | Women war workers at Chiswick Works gather used bus blind paper into bails for paper salvage.
All over the country, people collected paper to help build munitions. Newspapers during the war were shorter than in peacetime and printed on poor-quality paper. Books were collected: 56 million were gathered for pulping or reuse. No unnecessary paper was used for wrapping, and little was available for toilet paper. Many families used newspaper for this purpose.
Paper recycling was part of an extraordinarily productive recycling scheme: school children, housewives and office workers collected bones, rags, aluminium and metal to help the war effort. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 15 Apr 1943 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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