Chris Jordan's Statistical Art

Chris Jordan sets up and shoots photographs of statistical appalling facts about our culture: the number of plastic beverage bottles used in the U.S. every five minutes, the number of cell phones retired in the U.S. every day, the amount of office paper used in the US every five minutes...

The author makes the caviat that you don't really get the full effect of these images when you view them at reduced web size, but they're still very impressive.