Task 1 – Take a look at the chart below and perform the task as outlined: This graph shows the proportion of four different materials that were recycled from 1982 to 2010 in a particular country. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, making comparisons where relevant.

The chart displays the percentage of recycled materials in a certain country between 1982 and 2010.

Overall

,

it is clear that

paper and cardboard remained the most recyclable during the years,

on the contrary

, plastic had the lowest percentage over the period. Aluminium started rising significantly and kept the pace till the end, glass recycling was decreasing at the beginning, but rose steadily after that. At the start of 1982, there were only two fractions with a considerable recycling rate. For the first 10 years the paper graph has been fluctuating a bit, but immediately reached its peak of 80% in 1994,

then

had a 10 per cent downturn, losing about a quarter every 4 years. Glass has the opposite statistic. In the beginning, exactly half of all glass was recycled, the chart went down and had the lowest point of approximately 40%,

then

started to grow and climbed to the highest point in 2010. The current country started to recycle aluminium cans a bit later, despite that

this

material has grown 9 times, showing a

dramatical

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jump of a bit less than half from 2002 to 2010. The graph for plastics

also

was rising but never met even a 10% score.