The pie chart below illustrates the structure of household rubbish in the United States comparing two different years.
As we see, the most noticeable feature in 1990 is a percentage of paper, which is roughly 35%, the second most popular position is a kitchen and organic waste that is approximately 25%. The other half of chart is composed of small quantities, for example the amount of glass and plastic have the same usage equal to 8%. The Persentage of dust and cinders little less – 7%. The amount of metals is restricted by 5%. And the count of textile and wide is remained relatively stable with 4%.
For comparison, the following is given the second pie chart for 2007. The amount of kitchen and organic trash increased dramatically to 42% and the persentage of paper rubbish abridged to 16%. The count of not recycled household waste is around 17%. The plastic constitutes about 8%, that didn’t changed comparing with 1990. The glass rubbish had some alterations and decreased from 8% to 5%, becoming on par with wooden materials. A small minority of metals is shown with a percentage of 4%. The remaining 3% represents textiles.