Croydon: Factory Lane waste disposal site

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The photograph on this page of Croydon: Factory Lane waste disposal site by Christopher Hilton as part of the Geograph project.

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Croydon: Factory Lane waste disposal site

Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 25 Feb 2006

Croydon operates two large-scale depots for the collection of various categories of recyclable waste: Purley Oaks (Image) is the other. Factory Lane is the larger since it also receives all the waste collected on doorsteps by Croydon's refusal disposal trucks. It can be seen from further off in Image

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.377437
Longitude
-0.115415