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Why can’t we just launch all of Earth’s garbage into the sun?

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We already have a relatively unregulated orbital junk problem, with tens of thousands of known objects up there and counting.

Professor John L. Crassidis : "It’s not cost-feasible at all" He says firing trash into the sun could work, assuming future technological developments make such a feat feasible.