Waste disposal into Space

Why not dump the world’s waste into space, especially how about shooting the nuclear waste into the sun? What a fantastic way to wipe our hands clean of that pesky waste. Wouldn’t that be a tidy solution to a gigantic problem? Gather together all the garbage, bundle it up and fire it off into space, something like dumping it into the Sun. We could live in a world without trash.

The Sun is a constant nuclear reactor about 330k times as massive as Earth; so it could swallow tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste as easily as a forest fire consumes a drop of gasoline.

There are two major problems to get this done:                                                                                                                 
One thing is that humans produce enormous amount of garbage and on the other hand, rocket launches are extremely expensive. But, Alas! The benefits fall far short of the risk involved.

Its been estimated that launching waste into space would cost about $1.6 billion/year, only to dispose nuclear waste generated. It amounts to nearly $20,000 per kg of waste.

We have been disposing all kinds of toxic wastes into oceans. There is so much trash on this planet that the ocens are already fully chocked of it.

It is a bummer when a satellite ends up underwater, but it’s an entirely different story if that rocket is packed up with a hundred pounds of radioactive waste. And to make the situations worse, what if it catches fire, dusting the earth with radioactive ash.                                                                                                             
Oh My God! Doesn’t seem like a good idea.

There has always been voices raising against this idea of waste disposal in space. Dumping our trash into heaps in the name of landfrills and rotting this earth is bad enough. So they ignore the suggestion of garbage heaps in space. And they have got a valid point.

Humans are doing a dedicated job of ruining this planet by themselves, so some don’t encourage this stupidity to jump into a higher level.

Man has been exploring space for many years. They have been trying to establish a habitat in other planets as well. We can ever hope to have a clean and tidy habitat there because before man stepped in, he dumped his wastes there. 

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