What would the estimated cost of launching it and how much can be sent at a time? Do you think this would be possible in the far future? What may some of the consequences be if this is done?
Well, I guess that an idea like this has to be considered from time to time...after all there is lots of room up there...
Right now, it costs about $10,000 to place one pound of material into space orbit. How much does your junk trash weigh?
Also, given the way things work...If you put it up there, sooner or later it is going to come down again, into someone elses yard. I don't know if they will be happy about that or not. A lot of it might burn up on the way down, but it sure seems simpler to me to just burn it up right here on the surface of the Earth.
Shipping it to the Sun...Wow. Now there is an idea. Plan on spending something like one billion dollars for a package of refuse the size of a VW Beetle Car. Do you really want to spend that much to dispose of trash? Garbage Collectors will get really rich in the future if that is our plan.
Too expensive.
I think that it would be cheaper just do designate a large island as the world's garbage dump and ship all our rubbish there. Build a large wall so that the rubbish doesn't blow into the sea. Build a recycling facility on the island so that whatever is recyclable can be reused. Charge countries to dump it, then resell the recyclables.
Being from Australia, I would recommend that we designate either New Zealand or the UK as the island of choice, but of course, it will have to be up for debate.
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20 thousand bucks a kilo.
the launch capacity of a shuttle is one garbage truck load, btw.
even if we could, and we are several orders of magnitude away from even thinking about it, we should concentrate on recycling our garbage instead.
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