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The chart below compares levels of recycling, as well as some less environmentally friendly 
forms of waste management, in fifteen European countries. 
The bar chart shows the percentage of waste that is recycled, put into landfill or incinerated in various 
EU countries. 
If we look at the fifteen EU countries as a whole, it is clear that more waste goes to landfill sites than 
to any other refuse management facility. In fact, while around half of the countries put the majority of 
their waste into landfill sites, only two countries recycle at least 50% of the waste that they produce. 
Austria and Belgium are the most environmentally friendly of the fifteen countries, recycling around 
60% and 50% of their waste respectively. Germany, Sweden and Belgium also appear to have 
effective recycling programmes, resulting in roughly 40% of waste being processed in this way in 
each country. 
Other EU countries recycle far less. Greece, Ireland and the UK, for example, only recycle around 
10% of refuse, and put between 80 and 90 per cent of their waste into landfill. Finally, while most non-
recycled waste in the EU area goes to landfill, four countries, namely Luxembourg, Sweden, the 
Netherlands and Denmark, incinerate more waste than they bury. 
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Thursday, February 22, 2018 
IELTS Writing Task 1: too long! 
The report below describes the line graph in 
this lesson
. It's a really good answer (band 9), but the 
problem is that it contains 240 words. 
I don't think many people would have time to write such a long answer in only 20 minutes, so let's try 
the following exercise.