过去一年中，回收行业经历了显著的价格波动。起初，由于全球对废钢、金属等可回收产品的需求激增，价格达到了历史高点。然而，随着美国经济出现疲软迹象，加之全球金融市场动荡，需求骤减，导致包括旧纸板在内的多种可回收材料的价格大幅下跌。
The Recycling industry is slowly on the road to recovery after going through an economic rollercoaster ride. A year ago, there was high demand for scrap steel, metals and other recyclable products, leading to record prices. Then demand abruptly ceased and prices plummeted. Up until June, there was demand everywhere and therefore prices were high. Because the U.S. dollar was low there was more demand from the Pacific Rim countries for scrap steel and other recyclables. But then the U.S. economy faltered and the world financial market stumbled. As a consequence demand dropped and prices plunged. According to R. E. Cycle, chief executive of the World Recycling Association, prices for used cardboard dropped by 75 percent in four months and other recyclables saw price drops, as well.
rollercoaster ride 过山车
cardboard 硬纸板
Graph 4 - The level of air pollution has fluctuated all year.
Graph 3 - The population of sea lions had leveled out after the high water contamination of the previous years. Unfortunately a new oil leak was the reason numbers plunged again in the last quarter of the year.
Graph 2 - The demand for recyclables increased slowly over the first two quarters of the year. In the third quarter it peaked but then it plummeted to its lowest point.
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