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

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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?

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We could do a lot more good with it on Earth than to build a rocket to send just a little bit into space. The big problem is collecting it and we’d have to do that anyway. Then rocket launches are expensive and not environmentally friendly either. Overall, it’s a bad idea.

We’d be better off burning the plastic for fuel

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