The graph below shows the proportion of four different material that were recycled from 1982 to 2010 in a particular country. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart illustrates the recycling

rate

of four materials: paper & cardboard, glass containers,

aluminium

cans and plastics, between 1982 and 2010. It can be noted that paper and glass were the most recycled elements for the period, but

aluminium

was rapidly catching up with them,

while

the plastics

rate

remained distant from the first three. Analyzing the trends, it can be seen that the paper

rate

was the most variable one, starting from 65% in 1982, arriving at 80% in 1994 and

then

continuously declining, reaching a 70% recycling

rate

in 2010.

This

trend was similar, in the beginning, with the glass one, with a decrease until 1990, passing from 50% to 40%

rate

, when a steady growth started, totalling a 60%

rate

in 2010.

On the other

hand

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aluminium

, that in 1986, when the historical series started, was recycled only for 5% of the total, saw the sharpest raise of all the four categories, reaching 45% in 2010.

Finally

, plastics, for which data are available only from 1990, saw a steady increase, passing from a 5%

rate

in 1990 to a little less than 10% in 2010. In conclusion, it can be stated that these selected materials all had different trends in the considered time frame.

In particular

,

whereas

the most recycled ones saw a certain grade of maturity, with contained raises or declines,

aluminium

saw a greater increase pace, which could be linked with the relative recentness of

this

activity.