The given table provides information about the waste produced in 6 different countries: Ireland, Japan, Korea, Poland, Portugal, and the US, from 1980 to 2000.
Overall, it can be seen that all countries in question managed to experience an increase in the amount of waste production, with the exception of Korea, where figures decreased in the given time frame. Another noteworthy feature is that the US dominated in the amount of disposed rubbish over the extended period, whereas the opposite was true for Portugal.
To start with the amount of waste production in Asian coun tries- with an initial figure of 28 million tons, Japan, witnessed slight growth of 4 million tons. In 2000, the amount of disposed waste in this country increased substantially from 32 million to 53 million tons, therefore dominating across Asian countries. Meanwhile, Korea experienced a moderate drop from 31 million tons in 1990 to 19 million tons in the culminating year. Equally salient is that both Japan and Korea demonstrated more or less the same amount of disposal in 1990: 32 million tons and 31 million tons respectively.
As for European countries- by illustrating an increase from 0.6 million tons to 5 million tons in 2000, Ireland avoided garbage production in 1990. Meanwhile, both Poland and Portugal showed the same amount of growth in 1990, albeit t o varying degre es- from 4 million to 5 million tons for the former and from 2 million to 3 million for the latter. While Poland culminated the final year with 6.6 million tons, the amount of disposal in this year for Portugal was less by 1.6 million tons. The amount of garbage in the US rose moderately from 131 million to 151 million tons in 1990, before a significant rise to 192 million tons in 2000.