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 given diagram illustrates the recycling activity for 4 different materials in a particular country for the 28-year time span, from 1982 to 2010.

Overall

, the graph charts show the recycling rate of 4 observed items: paper and cardboard, glass containers, aluminium cans, and plastics, from 1982 to 2010.

While

the ranking between items was stable for the reported years, there was a high surge for aluminium cans.

First,

paper and cardboard were always in the top position from 1982 to 2010. Despite increasing to 80% of recycling rate from 1982 to 1994, it kept decreasing to 70% in 2010.

On the contrary

, the glass containers which were placed in the second rank, showed an inverted pattern where it decreased from 50% to 40% in 1990, before consistently moving up to 60% in 2010. Aluminium cans followed on the third post, showed an impressive run of improvement number from under 10% in 1986 to almost 45% recycling rate in 2010. Plastics,

however

,

while

showing the same increment pattern, the record still shows below 10% of recycling activities.