The table below shows the amount of waste production (in millions of tons) in six different countries over a twenty-year period.

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waste

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materials produced by some particular countries, over a 20-year period between 1980 and 2000. Looking from an

overall

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perspective, it can be clearly seen that there were significant upward trends in five countries,

whereas

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Korea witnessed a decline during the period. Looking into detail, the amount of

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output in Ireland soared from 0.6

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to 5

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. Meanwhile, Japan’s

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materials increased dramatically from 28

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to 53

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. The figure for Korea underwent a fluctuation, jumping to 31

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in 1990 and declining to 19

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in 2000.

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, there was a slight rise in the

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produced by Poland from 4

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to 6.6

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. The

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of

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materials in Portugal increased marginally to 5

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like

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in Poland

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. The production of

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in Japan decreased significantly from 31

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to 19

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over a 20-year period.