The pie charts illustrate the effective ways by which the Republic of Korea, Sweden, and the UK dispose of harmful waste products.
Overall, Sweden and the United Kingdom both majorly adopted the underground method of waste disposal, with the latter being the only country that used chemical treatment and the dumping at sea method of handling waste. Meanwhile, recycling was the most used means of dealing with dangerous substances in Korea.
It is evident that Korea and Sweden depended on recycling, underground, and incineration as means of managing harmful waste. Furthermore, the former country mostly recycled at 69%, while the underground and incineration systems were used 22% and 9%, respectively. Meanwhile, in Sweden, 53% of the underground method was majorly adopted, followed by a recycling rate of 25% and incineration, which was used at 20%.
Furthermore, in the United Kingdom, 82% of dangerous substances were treated underground, similar to Sweden, which significantly used this method. Moreover, in the UK, they had various other means of handling waste products: dumping at sea and chemical treatment. Both systems were used differently at an equal fraction of 8%, while destroying by fire accounted for 2%. Subsequently, in the UK, recycling as a means of handling refuse was not adopted.