The chart illustrates the percentage of recycling for paper and cardboard, glass containers, aluminum cans and plastics over the period in between 1982 to 2010 in a specific nation.
Overall, aluminum cans witnessed upward trend while plastics showed continuous growth with minimum portion but paper and cardboard and glass containers experienced fluctuation.
In 1982 recycling rate for paper and cardboard and glass container were 65 % and 50 % respectively then paper and cardboard slowly increased and reached to 75 % in 1986 and started to decrease where, glass containers declined and reached 40% and paper and card board in 1990 reached at same position in 1982. Paper and cardboard and glass containers both witnessed positive trend for next four years. Paper and cardboard drastically decreased and vice versa of
