why can’t we just put all of earth’s trash on the dark side of the moon?

Question

Specifically the side that does not get exposed to the earth so trash won’t be pulled back.

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Answer 1

It’s incredibly expensive to launch materials into space. It would be even costlier and pointless to put it on the dark side of the moon. A more reasonable approach would be to simply send it out far into empty space. Still, this brings up the problem of cost, though. In short, it’s way too expensive