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Originally Posted by AndyG
I wonder (if/when it's do-able), we fling our trash into the Sun?
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Unlikely. While it seems a nice idea, from an engineers standpoint everything fails, sooner or later. When that happens the consequences of this stuff crashing back to earth are ... problematic, to put it mildly.
By way of example where a spacecraft carries a nuclear reactor for power (some do, particularly those that will venture far from the sun) the effort that goes into making sure it doesn't pose a safety hazard is phenomenal.
Doing that for launching waste... doesn't make any sense.