World Vitals / Waste, leakage, and trade
Track plastic waste generation, mismanagement, pollution leakage, and trade.
Plastic pages should distinguish production, waste generation, mismanaged waste, ocean leakage, and recycling.
The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.
Database charts
These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.
World Bank
Forest area is a land-system pressure indicator, not a climate-emissions proxy.
Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.
World Bank
This land-use series connects food, biodiversity, and environmental change.
Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.
World Bank WDI
This paired view separates land-system structure from emissions and climate impacts.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
Metric snapshots
Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.
Run-rate estimate from Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 projection.
Global Carbon Project / 2025 projectionProjected total global CO2 emissions including fossil fuels and land-use change.
Global Carbon Project / 2025 projectionRelated topics
Track CO2 estimates and environmental pressure signals from institution-grade sources.
Extraction, reserves, and depletionTrack reserves, extraction, trade, and depletion across natural resources.
Production, supply, and nutritionBuild a food-system explorer across production, supply, hunger, prices, and environmental pressure.