I know some places in the world have a serious garbage problems and i was wondering if anyone thinks that we should pack a rocket full of it and send it into outerspace. i know this could create some problems like the rocket blowing up and trash getting everywhere but where isnt trash? i would like your thoughts.

But if we do that, there's the possibility that in a thousand years the garbage might come back and speed right into the earth blowing it up with a mountain of ninteenth century garbage.

what about sending it into the sun? or a planet?

It would be ideal to send garbage into the sun.
Who is going to do this though? And fund it?

Costs billions upon billions just to get a probe in space. Getting a massive rocket carrying the earths garbage into the sun will take more money than there is on earth probably. I guess we could use the moon as a garbage dump, but really, there are better things to focus space-travel research on than getting garbage to the moon and unloading it.

Right now theres still plenty of space. As far as i'm aware here we have a pretty good system going on. We pay the US to take our garbage for us, and they throw it on a massive heap somewhere.

not all the garbage just the stuff that is near impossible to breakdown. some point i think this will happen because sooner or later we will ahve to much garbage.

i agree. sooner or later, we will.

did you know it takes 8 months for a newspaper to break down to nothing? 2 years for a cigarette butt. 100 years for a plastic bag.

about 2 million years for a plastic bottle.

it's not going anywhere, and we're making billions by the day. so yes, one day, it will need to go somewhere else.

im sure theres somebody thats been put in place to think of things to get rid of the trash, at least i hope so.

Lol, this sounds alot like futurama. The only problem with sending all that trash into space is that earth would have that much less matter on it, so if we do that every hundred years, the earth might deteriorate to nothing.... It's much better just to recycle

wingman, do you have any idea how big the earth is with respect to the garbage we produce? Its like comparing the period at the end of this sentence to a bowling ball.

yeah, we make a lot of trash, there are recycling efforts being made, and lots of jobs in the garbage industry. what we have works, and will contiue to work for a long time.

haha....

Do you have any idea how much that would cost with todays rockets! lol

Well recycling is the way to go, And it does seem to do fine.


2 million years? That shocks me yet it doesn't at the same time. Plastic bottles are always resistant to weathering (or so it seems).

I remember reading a National Geographic article in the 90s about how biodegradable stuff does NOT break down in the landfills because it is buried to quickly to be exposed to insects/weather/bacterium. They shows a picture of a hot dog from 1972 that almost looked good enough to eat still. And an apple core that they estimated to be from the later 70s -- still intact and complete.

People need to stop throwing away good stuff that can be used still.

a hotdog? I always knew they weren't the best meal to eat.

Garbage should not be thrown everywhere. It give rises to pollution.Also diseases spread like anything. So everyone should be careful about it.

That was a funny episode

Was that futurama?

I think if we could take the money we are spending just on sending shuttles into space every year and take one big landfill of garbage up once a year and send it into the sun would be a great idea.
Wasn't there even something being said about burying people on other planets due to fact that one day we will run out of land to bury???