Approach to Recycling Centre on Cemetery Road

Introduction

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Approach to Recycling Centre on Cemetery Road

Image: © David Dixon Taken: 20 May 2020

On 23 March, During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom , the UK government imposed a lockdown on the whole population, banning all "non-essential" travel and contact with people outside one's home. All restaurants, pubs, clubs and indoor sport and leisure facilities were ordered to close. Initially, all of the recycling centres in the Bury MBC area were closed (many cited this as a cause of the increased amount of fly tipping around the borough). In May the council announced a limited re-opening of the Household waste recycling centres, beginning with the Radcliffe HWRC on Cemetery Road which opened from Saturday 16 May, with restricted opening hours. Some of the restrictions are listed on a notice which is attached to the gate (Image The centre could only be visited by private car (no pedestrian access was allowed) and only one vehicle was allowed into the facility at any one time. This meant that vehicles had to queue on Cemetery Road.

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