Timeline for Were World War II scrap drives in the United States truly necessary for the procurement of raw materials?
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| Feb 29 at 1:09 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2018 at 1:47 | comment | added | Mark | Odd that aluminum-recycling drives were a waste of time, considering that today aluminum is the most-recycled and most-successfully-recycled material. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 16:18 | comment | added | jamesqf | Perhaps it should be noted that this is all hindsight. At the start of the war, there was no way to know,that for instance the attempt to develop synthetic rubber would be successful. If it hadn't been, poor-quality recycled rubber would have been better than none. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 16:08 | comment | added | spacetyper | I really like that you highlighted passages from many sources, and even included raw data. Fantastic answer. | |
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 22:38 | history | edited | LangLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 18:32 | comment | added | Joe W | It should also be mentioned that the scrap drives also would help reduce the demand and consumption of the materials allowing them to be more easily redirected to the war effort. | |
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| S Jul 15, 2018 at 18:03 | history | suggested | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 17:58 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | Yep, rubber "recycling" in particular was more for show than to fill actual needs. I recall reading about 40 years ago a credible article outlining several other "faux" recycling drives. | |
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 17:16 | history | answered | LangLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |