If landfills are filling up why dont we just put our trash in a spaceship and send it to space?

Question

Reducing waste is just too hard!!

Answer 1

Why junk up space,we are doing a good job here. First it costs millions to sent a spacecraft to space. Many dumps are recycleing metal and plastic and wood. I understand the Swiss uses their trash for fuel to light a whole city,cost millions t but pays off. It's your planet and everyone has a responsibility to keep it clean  and green for the next generation and ones to follow even if it's hard on you.

Answer 2

Comon Hue - Don't give up now.  We can reduce waste and become more efficient.  A lot of things in life are hard but that doesn't mean we need to take the easy way out.  Struggle and acheivment are the spice of life.

Yeah it would cost a lot of money.  More than we have... also - wouldn't we eventually deplete the planet?  I mean we aren't bringing stuff in from space - so if we shuttle stuff out - even if it is garbage...

Heh, heh - Anyway, reducing isn't that hard.  One of the least expensive ways is to simply use less in the first place.  Hey I have a family of four and we compost and recycle - our garbage can is the smallest on the block - hence we pay less than everyone else.  My neighbors can't seem to catch up and are amazed.  We aren't really doing anything special - just living like good German Catholics:

Efficiently!

Answer 3

I take it that you haven't looked into what it costs to put a pound of anything into space lately.  There's a reason why NASA and the other major space agencies make their stuff as flimsy as possible without it having too high of a failure probability -- launching rockets isn't cheap.

Answer 4

We would need to launch 50,000 spaceships a day just to make a dent. How feasible is that? Just because something is hard is no excuse not to try!

Answer 5

Let's just bury it!

Answer 6

It cost enough money as it is to send just a SPACE SHUTTLE to space. And imagine sending millions of those suckers up there!

Tons of money and time would be wasted.

It's called recycle people!

Answer 7

Ultimately it comes back to earth with additional load!

May be by then earth may be in worst condition, so better find better available disposal on earth.