What exactly is stopping us from sending a rocket into space with our plastic waste?

Question

I get that you could not possibly get rid of all of it, but wouldn’t it make sense to send a trash rocket into the abyss?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

This has been asked and answered here multiple time. The answer is cost. How much money it takes to lift a ton of garbage into space. No matter what you want to send one pound is one pound and cost approx $ 1500 to send to orbit. Once there you still need to send it to wherever. And that costs even more.