The pie charts below give information about the composition of household rubbish in the United Kingdom in two different years. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts below give information about the composition of household rubbish in the United Kingdom in two different years.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie diagrams illustrate the proportion of a variety of refuse in British
household
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households
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in both years, 1985 and 2002.
Overall
,
it is clear that
paper
is the main rubbish in the UK;
however
, people are not interested in littering textiles.
To begin
with, looking at the year 1985, the fraction of
paper
occupied well over one-third followed by organic waste which was a massive 28%. Cinders, metals, wood, glass and plastic were seen to have almost the same ratio, with roughly 7%.
Furthermore
, textiles came in
last
place with a meagre 3%. What is interesting to note is that the difference between the first and the final place was around 12 times. On the other side of the coin, the percentage of
paper
in 2002 shot up to a gigantic 44% whilst metal and glass surpassed kitchen waste and arrived at 16% and 17% respectively.
Besides
, plastic remained at the same
per cent
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as in the year 1985 and textiles slightly dropped by a minuscule 1%. What is surprising to see is that the
paper
was more than the organic waste by 11 times.
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