This task is submitted by our student Simran Sharma. It belongs to the 3/3 bands category. A dual-line graph reveals the data regarding national recycling rates of waste: total waste recovery in million tons and recycling percentage. Moreover, the data has been calculated in the USA from 1960 to 2011. Overall, it is evident that the recovery rate and recycling percentage inched up with each passing year. According to the given data, in the first year, the total waste recovery (TWR) was registered at around 5.6 million tons(MT) whereas recycling was calculated at exactly 6.4 per cent. Both emphasize the inclining trend, and after two and half decades they met at a point where TWR and recycling were nearly 16.7MT and 10.1 per cent, respectively. They again follow rising trends. In - brief, in 1990, the TWR was exactly 33.2 million tons; conversely, the proportion of recycling was 16. Moving further in 1995, the total waste recovery and recycling percentage were documented at 55.8MT...