The graph below 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, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagrams

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recycling statistics for four materials between 1982 and 2010, namely,

paper

and cardboard,

glass

containers

,

aluminium

cans and plastics.

Overall

, the volumes of

paper

and cardboard and

glass

containers

were volatile over the period

while

aluminium

maintained an up trend and plastics were nearly

stagnent

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stagnant

with only an increase of less than 5%. It is important to note that in 1982 there were only two materials being recycled,

aluminium

and plastic joined later in 1986 and 1990 respectively. In 1986

paper

was the most recycled at around 65%,

while

only one in every 2

glass

containers

were recycled. From that year

paper

cardboard

gradualy

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gradually

increased

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volume to 70% by 1986, it recorded its highest volume in 1994 at 80%, meanwhile,

glass

containers

was

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declining in the same period.

It is clear that

when

aluminium

started recycling it became so popular that it rapidly increased by more than 40% over

the

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time.