IELTS TASK 1 The graph provides information about the recycling percentage of four different materials (paper and cardboard, glass and containers, aluminium cans, plastics) in an unknown country. Data are provided every four years between 1982 and 2020. Overall, all the different materials show an upwards trend with the percentage of recycle at the end of the time period higher than that at the beginning. However, while both aluminium and plastics experienced a steady increase overtime, paper and cardboard trend fluctuated in the timespan while the recycle of glass containers reached a low and then increased again. For what concerns aluminium, the percentage of recycling was very low at the beginning (in 1986 it was approximately 2% ) but, among the different materials, it is the one that grew more steadily overtime and by 2008 more than 40% of total aluminium was recycled. Plastics grew as well but at a much lower level, starting from no recycling at all in 1986 to almost 10% in 2010. On the other hand, paper and cardboard experienced a fluctuating trend especially before 1994. Indeed, there was an increase in recycling from about 65% in 1982 to 70% in 1986 followed by a decrease to the original value in 1990 and an increase to 80% in 1994. Then the recycled amount decreased steadily until 2010 when it returned again to 70%. The recycle of glass containers showed a downwards trend until it reached a low in 1990 (with only 40% of recycling) and then it steadily increased until 2010 when the amount recycled reached 60%.