Increasing the price of petrol is the best way to solve the ​growing traffic and pollution problems.

The given bar
chart
illustrates how many
tons
of waste
reported
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by a recycling centre from 2011 to 2015. In general, there are four categories of garbages that the
chart
mentions. These are
paper
,
glass
,
tins
and
garden
, especially
paper
accounted for the highest
tons
in the five years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Firstly
, in 2011, there was in
a
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descending order from
paper
,
glass
,
tins
to
garden
with 57, 48, 35 and 32
tons
, respectively. In 2012, the number of
tons
of
paper
decreased by 7
tons
but
paper
still remained its position in the
chart
. Other figures
also
went down in 2012,
however
, one striking figure was
garden
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that markedly declined from 32
tons
to 15
tons
. Moving on to 2013,
paper
continue decreasing, but
this
time, the number of
tons
going down was so significant that
paper
became the
second
-highest in the
chart
with 40
tons
. Three
last
figures all increased in 2013, and
glass
made an overall rise of 7
tons
to be the leader of the
chart
. Notwithstanding, in 2014, there was an overtake of
paper
to bring its top back. Slightly decline was in
glass
,
tins
and
paper
.
Lastly
,
paper
rose sharply from 51
tons
in 2014 to 70
tons
in 2015. There was
also
an upward trend which is moderate in the number of
glass
and
tins
.
Garden
increased considerably by 8
tons
but still the lowest figure in the
chart
,
garden
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had remained its bottom position in the
chart
for the five-year period.
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