Like virtually every other American city, town, and village, Ann Arbor sponsored recycling campaigns during World War II to gather valuable materials for the war effort. Rubber tires, motor oil, and metal were just some of the materials gathered.
Months before the formal entry of the U.S. into the war in 1941, bins were erected on Courthouse Square for the collection of aluminum, a critically important resource in industrial war production.
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SPONSORED BY THE ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY AND THE ANN ARBOR NEWS
