Critical Reasoning (CR) | From 1978 to 1988, beverage containers accounted for a steadily decrea

Understanding the argument -
In these ten years - Beverage containers (BCs) accounted for a lower %age weight of household garbage. This means, say earlier, out of every 100 units of household garbage, we had 50 units of BCs, but in these years, for every 100 units, we only got ten units of BCs.
Why this happened - credit to recycling. Between the two kinds of BCs, the Aluminium (A) was recycled more than Glass Bottle (G). So what will you expect? In those ten units of garbage, we got, we would expect, say, more units of bottles and fewer units of Aluminium. Right? But the opposite of this has happened, and that is the paradox.

Just think in what scenario that'll happen. Maybe earlier, we made 20 units of Aluminum and 20 units of Glass bottles overall. Say now all manufacturers start using more Aluminium. Say now we make 38 units of Aluminium and two units of Glass. This is one possibility. Another possibility is that we use a different material altogether. Out of these 20 Aluminium
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