Band 5+: The chart below shows different methods of waste disposal in a European country from 2005 to 2008. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph gives information about the amount of waste that was disposed in three ways in an European country between 2005 and 2008.

Overall, it’s obvious that the amount of waste burial and being dumped in the sea shared a downward trend with varying degree while the burning one remained stable but fluctuated in the end of the survey. It is also apparent that, the landfill seemed to be the most popular way in the study’s first year then was replace by burning while the opposite was true for the dumping in sea during most of the period surveyed.

In 2005, the landfill method hit a peek of 770 million tones in 2005 but dipped dramatically to 40 million tones in 2008. In comparison, there was also a slightly decrease of 5 million tones in discharging into the sea in 2006. After a period of stability of 50 million tones in 2007, 2008 observed a considerable fall to 40 million tones in the amount of dumping garbage in sea.

At the beginning of the given period, a drastical downward trend from 65 million tones to 40 million tones in the incineration was recorded in 2007. Over the next year, this figured witnessed a dramatical volatility before peeking at around 65 million tones, making it the most popular choice of three methods.