The given bar chart demonstrates data about the average amount of the waste disposal in an European country, consisting of landfill, burning and dumping at sea, over a four-year period, between 2005 and 2008.
It can easily be noticed from the chart that there was a dramatical decrease trend in the waste disposal in landfill in one European nation, whereas the waste treatment through burning saw a gradual increase over the time period covered by the graph. Furthermore, the most singificant point is that the practice of dumping at sea stayed constantly in three consecutive years, excepting in 2008.
If we look at the amount of waste disposal in the landfill, it started at nearly 1800 million tonnes in 2005, which is the highest recorded in the chart. The next year witnessed a substantial decline of 600 million tonnes, standing at 1200 million tonnes. In the following two years, the number continued to fall gradually, with a final figure of 600 million tonnes in 2008. On the other hand, incineration began at approximately 500 million tonnes in the first year and reached a trough in the graph. There was a slight rise to 600 million tonnes of use of the heat in 2006. The rate of burning waste for treatment kept on going up steadily from 2006 to 2008. Finally, the amount in 2008 hit a peak at 900 million tonnes of rubbish waste using this treatment.
Meanwhile, as regards the practice of discharging into the ocean, it virtually remained stable at around 600 million tonnes over a three-year period, between 2005 and 2007. In the last year, the amount of dumping in the sea dropped marginally and finished at just under 600 million tonnes.