57% of the total mass of all human-made objects in Earth's orbit consists of defunct or inactive objects. The Data: According to NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office, there are over 8,800 metric tonnes of defunct satellites, spent rocket stages, broken components, and collision fragments in orbit.
Between 1848 and 1855, an estimated 750 tons of gold were extracted in California — worth over $75 billion in today’s prices ($3,115.05/oz). If you were to squish it all into a single rectangular chunk, it would come out to 2.8 meters tall × 2.5 meters
Roughly 33% of the world’s farmland — about 566 million hectares — is degraded due to human activity, threatening food security and ecosystem health. Agricultural Land Degredation: Farmland that has lost its ability to produce food due to human activities like deforestation, overgrazing, poor farming practices, and pollution. Land degradation leads
Every person on Earth wastes an average of 353 lbs (160 kg) of food annually — the equivalent of throwing away double their own body weight in food each year. Update: After clarification was requested, an updated graphic has been made to show only residential food waste as of 2021, which
Over 400 million tonnes of plastic was projected to be wasted in 2024 according to an OECD report from 2020. Further, plastic waste is expected to nearly triple worldwide by 2060, with half of all waste expected to be in landfill while less than one-fifth of it will be recycled.