The chart displays the percentage of recycled materials in a certain country between 1982 and 2010.
Overall
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it is clear that
paper and cardboard remained the most recyclable during the years, Linking Words
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, Linking Words
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%, Linking Words
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 Linking Words
this
material has grown 9 times, showing a Linking Words
dramatical
jump of a bit less than half from 2002 to 2010. The graph for plastics Replace the word
dramatic
also
was rising but never met even a 10% score.Linking Words
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