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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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.
For a scale that would matter even if possible. Would start to make me worry that we’re permanently removing the only resources we have on our planet
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