The table below shows the amount of waste production (in millions of tonnes) in six different countries over a twenty-year period.
The chart compares the amounts of
waste
that were produced in six countries in the years 1980, 1990 and 2000.
In each of these years, the US produced more waste
than Ireland, Japan, Korea
, Poland and Portugal combined. It is also
noticeable that Korea
was the only country that managed to reduce its waste
output by the year 2000.
Between 1980 and 2000, waste
production in the US rose from 131 to 192 million
tonnes
, and rising trends were also
seen in Japan, Poland and Portugal. Japan’s waste
output increased from 28 to 53 million
tonnes
, while
Poland and Portugal saw waste
totals increase from 4 to 6.6 and from 2 to 5 million
tonnes
respectively.
The trends for Ireland and Korea
were noticeably different from those described above. In Ireland, waste
production increased more than eightfold, from only 0.6 million
tonnes
in 1980 to 5 million
tonnes
in 2000. Korea
, by contrast
, cut its waste
output by 12 million
tonnes
between 1990 and 2000.Submitted by Nghỉ hè vui vẻ cả nhà on
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