Despite legislation designed to stem the accumulation of plastic waste, the plastics industry continued to grow rapidly last year, as can be seen from the fact that sales of the resin that is the raw material for manufacturing plastics grew by 10 percent to $28 billion. In assessing the support provided by the evidence cited above for the statement that the plastics industry continued to grow, in addition to the information above it would be most useful to know ['the dollar amount of resin sales the year before last', "what proportion of the plastics industry's output eventually contributes to the accumulation of plastic waste", 'whether sales of all goods and services in the economy as a whole were increasing last year', 'whether the resin has other uses besides the manufacture of plastics']