The line graph illustrates the percentage of household recycling in UK, France and Germany over a 10 year peiod.
Overall, the three countries present different evolutions of households recycling rates. In the UK and Germany there is an overall upward trend. However, recycling levels in France decreased between 2005 and 2015.
Indeed, the trends of the United Kingdom and Germany were similar but the former’s household recycling levels were higher than the latter thorought the period. In France, recycling rates started at exactly 50%, decreased steadily until 30% in 2013 before increasing by 10%. Moreover, while decreasing France rates met Germany’s in 2010 at just under 40%. France started with more than the double of Germany’s initial levels and ended up between 15 and 20 percent behind both Germany and the UK, respectively. United Kingdom recycling rates standing at just over a third in 2005 and reaching three-fifths in 2015, was the most advanced of the three countries in this matter at that time.
