Still time to sign petition, says recycling campaigner

* The pie chart produced by Phil Jones to illustrate his argument.

The Llangollen resident who started a petition for the return of full-time recycling site to serve the area has thanked all those who helped it reach over 600 signatures.

But Phil Jones has said there's still time for people to add their names to the list before he hands it into council bosses later this month.

Mr Jones said: "I decided to start a petition to re-establish access to a full-time recycling facility just one month ago. 

"I did this because I saw no sign of progress by Denbighshire County Council in negotiating access for DCC residents to the Plas Madoc facility after it reopened to residents of Wrexham CBC last spring. 

"Our council had set out to negotiate an access agreement after it closed our site at Wenffrwd back in 2007, but it never completed the task. 

"Although some people expressed the view that the pop-up at the Pavilion was adequate for our needs, I had the feeling that everyone must be using Plas Madoc for all their serious recycling needs. 

"It would seem I wasn’t wrong. In just four weeks our online petition has, at the time of writing, hit 590 signatures. In addition to this, we put out paper petition forms in Watkin and Williams, Gwyn the Butcher, Lilly Rose, and Fouzi’s. We have well over 100 signatures from these locations."

He added: "We have always maintained that the service we receive in the Dee Valley falls well short of what DCC provides in other towns and so to illustrate this point, we looked at the number of households in Ruthin and compared that to the number of households in Llangollen. 

"There is not much difference, and yet the Ruthin facility is open for 152 hours per month, while we get four hours per month. The pie charts above show how badly we are served when compared to Ruthin.

"We will be submitting our petition sometime in January, and I would like to thank everyone who has already signed it. 

"We would like to get the online version over the 600 mark. So, if you are a DCC resident living in the Dee Valley and would like to support this campaign please take the time to sign the petition. "We are not asking for donations. 

"You can do this by clicking this link. http://chng.it/DBqy8jTh