New generation groups 4th National Event - 2001 - A Waste Odyssey

摘要

"Mr Pickering explained that they were ...being asked to join together in an experiment to tip house refuse into wet gravel pits in a way which had [previously] been frowned upon so frequently by officers of the Ministry for Health and the medical profession. He said that during the war Croydon had succeeded in tipping and filling an area of 40 acres at Beddington Lane, that the work had been carried out without nuisance and the whole of the tipped area was now sufficiently solid to justify its conversion into playing fields.