During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe
shortages of essential raw materials. To keep its armaments
factories running, the British government enlisted millions of
people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials for use in
munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions
factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key
role in the efforts of the British government to maintain the
morale of its citizens, to secure billions of dollars in Lend-Lease
aid from the United States, and to uncover foreign intelligence.
However, Britain's wartime recycling campaign came at a cost: it
consumed items that would never have been destroyed under normal
circumstances, including significant parts of the nation's cultural
heritage. Based on extensive archival research, Peter Thorsheim
examines the relationship between armaments production, civil
liberties, cultural preservation, and diplomacy, making Waste into
Weapons the first in-depth history of twentieth-century recycling
in Britain.
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