Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recyclied. They say that the only way to increase recycling is for governments to make it a legal requirement. To what extent do you think laws are needed to make people recycle more of their waste?

The graph illustrates how many

complaints

made about

noise

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the Environmental Health Authority of Newton received from 1980 to 1996.

Overall

, it is possible to point out that

while

the

number

of

complaints

related to Traffic

Noise

faced an upward trend, the ones related to road

works

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noises sharply decreased throughout the period.

On the other hand

, problems with noisy factories

had

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slightly increased and

then

maintained steady. Both domestic and traffic

noise

complaints

drastically rose during the analyzed period. In 1980, they showed 500 and 300

complaints

respectively,

then

the

number

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fell

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slightly in 1986 before gradually rising from 1988 to 1996

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when both reached a peak of 600

complaints

of traffic

noise

and 1200

complaints

of domestic or household

noise

.

In addition

, when it comes to road works noises, the

number

of

complaints

significantly decreased from 500 in 1980 to 100 in 1996 approximately.

Although

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noisy factories were responsible for 400

complaints

in the beginning,

then

the

number

rose around to 700 in 1986, remaining steady for the rest of the period.