The pie charts illustrate the proportion of household rubbish in eight categories in the UK in 1985 and 2002. The waste types include wood, plastic, textiles, glass, kitchen/organic waste, paper, metals, and dust and cinders.
One clear trend is that paper was the most dominant type of rubbish in both years, accounting for 36% in 1985 and rising to 44% in 2002.
In contrast
, kitchen/organic waste saw a significant drop, falling from 28% to just 4%, a decrease of 24 percentage points.
The percentage of glass more than doubled, increasing from 7% in 1985 to 17% in 2002. Meanwhile, textiles remained the least common type of rubbish throughout the period, accounting for 3% in 1985 and 2% in 2002.
Linking Words
Additionally
, the proportion of dust and cinders dropped from 8% to 4%, Linking Words
while
the figure for wood remained stable at 6%. Plastic and metals both showed slight changes, with plastic increasing from 5% to 6%, and metals decreasing from 7% to 4%.Linking Words
jini001005