Sample Answer
102
IELTS
JOURNAL
102
The charts illustrate how recycling is carried out in Eutopia, and the pie charts show the
percentage of recycled and unrecycled waste
The charts provide information about recycling in Eutopia in three different years, namely
1980, 1990 and 2000.
The column chart shows that the percentage of recycled waste collected from people's
homes decreased from over three quarters to just over 70%.
The percentage of
recycled material taken to allocated areas increased between 1980 and 1990 but
remained steady at 18% in 2000.
The amount of recycling done from items that were returned to their original starting
point decreased in 1990 by 2%, but then increased to 8% in 2000. The category labelled
'other' decreased by 1% then remained stable at 2% for the final two given years.
The pie charts indicate a threefold increase in the amount of waste recycled between
1990 and 1990 from 7% up to 22%. In 2000, this figure
had continued to increase,
although at
a less dramatic rate, finishing at one third of waste being recycled.
Overall, it can be seen that recycling increased
over the time displayed, while the
percentage collected from each house gradually decreased.
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