Waste In Space: Add To Sea Of Celestial Junk

Take a moment to imagine the realization that a young boy came to when two of his favorite movies had a large plotline that was somewhat based on the problems of trash. Wall-E, the famous Pixar movie, was based on a small robot that was left behind on Earth’s surface alone. His job was to clean the garbage that the human population left behind when they went into space to escape their problems. Toy Story 3, another Pixar movie, contained a scene with garbage that was vital to the plot, in which the characters are rescued from a trash furnace that was consuming literally tons of trash a minute. These two movies tried to make the American population aware of the ever growing trash situation, however, Americans quickly forgot about the Earth shattering situation that they are causing. The solution to the world’s trash problem is easy; people need to be educated on the problems of trash and given an easy way to fix it. People should be required to visit a landfill, educated on the severity of the trash problem, and should be rewarded for changing their habits to improve the problem.

Pollution is now out of this world because according to “Cleaning up the Space Junk” “the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA has estimated that about 22,000 pieces of this pollution are as large as a softball and about 500,000 of them are closer to the size of a marble and there are possibly hundreds of millions of smaller pieces are also floating around the planet”.Based on the video “Space Junk” “the fail of Cosmos 54 led to fear of radioactive contamination from its nuclear power packs and that then confirmed that space junk can and will fall to Earth.And smaller pieces travel at an incredibly fast speed 17,000 to 21,000 mph so the damage that little tiny piece can do is potentially enormous.All

Heather Roger claims our current garbage disposal methods are short term and etiquette. Rogers’s position is clear that we need to minimize the use of landfills and create better means to discard trash. In supporting Rogers’s environment views I think that we need to create a more economic and environmental friendly garbage disposal system. Heather Rogers and Lars Eighner both acknowledge the issue with society’s throwaway mentality. Eighner proves that we throw away perfectly working stuff, having survived off others discarded materials. Eighner argues against excessive waste we create but does not have any prospected solutions. Whereas Rogers acknowledges the obvious need to minimize our consumption of waste but argues the need

Many critics believe that NASA and space exploration should not be the main focus of the government. However, NASA is not just about flying rockets and putting men into space. There is science and engineering that is being developed to push humanity forward in life. This space program is essential to answering philosophical questions, creating new technology for practical everyday use, the international collaboration with other countries, and the long-term survival of the human

Although space junk may seem trivial,it is in fact crucial in terms of today's concern over everyday life. Apparently Nasa has just been throwing it out the window into our atmosphere, which is causing a gigantic problem. Some experts say there are just some things like satellites they cannot take back to earth. They say that they would only do it in in rare cases. If they take the things up there how come they can't take back it down to earth. They are trying to find a way to bring the trash back.

Light needs to be shed on the reality of the recycling process as to where all of our trash

“We throw out about 254 million tons of solid waste per year in America alone” for comparison that is about 1.27 million average sized blue whales. That is a ton of trash! But, as Americans we do not see all this trash. We barely even touch it. It is all pretty much taken care of for us. So the trash is sort of out of sight out of mind. Let me put this into some

In Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter, in chapter 1: Making Soup, the author talks about how and where our trash ends up at. The author visits the Walmart-sized space Waste Management facility located in South Texas, which he describes as Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. He talks about how the conveyor belts separate the trash like papers, plastic bottles, cans, etc. Minter then talks about how all that trash ends up in countries like China for money. China buys our trash and uses it to produce new products from it, which they later sell it for money. Minter also mentioned why poor people are better at recycling compared to rich people. Junkyard Planet is an eye-opening and inspiring text for people including me who do not

The growth of consumption has caused a large increase in rubbish. This is due to people having more choice when out shopping. Many years ago women stayed at home and men went to work but now that both men and women are out earning there is a lot more disposable income which ends with people buying luxuries and upgrading items they already have. This results in the old ones being thrown away. People are constantly upgrading and renewing items to better models. Mobile phones bring out new models every year which people feel the need to buy to keep up with the trend and because they want the newest gadgets on the street. Pcs have changed to laptops which gives the pc no home except out to be collected on bin day. This causes a problem

People tossing out trash means that they don’t care what happens to it as long as it’s out of their car or house. People should think of the impact they can cause the environment if they recycle properly, reusing water bottles, and when they go grocery shopping bring a reusable bags that won’t be thrown out into streams and lakes that will cause pollution to the environment. If someone throws garbage where it shouldn’t belong then throw it out for them to keep the environment clean.

The space debris implies all man-made objects in space and their fragments, which are already defective and will never be able to serve any useful purposes. They include old artificial satellites, the upper stages of space launch vehicles, the fragments of exploded rockets, and so on. All these objects form dense layers around the Earth. In October 1979, the Johnson Space Center in the United States created the first specialized unit for research on space debris category at the initiative of NASA (Nelson 2014). Then, the international community has recognized the growing danger of space debris and the urgent need for measures to prevent its formation. Finally, it created the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (Nelson 2014). It is the most influential organization, which covers the full range of issues associated with space

(Amaral). The lack of proper disposal of trash is contributing to the existing problem of plastic pollution. Without changing our habits, the garbage patch will only continue to grow (Kostigen).

There is an ethical issue vs. a legal issue vs. a cost issue that is very much open to debate. Several decades of space exploration have led to a buildup of non-functional "space junk". However, proper disposal of equipment is just added cost for a space program that is already on a tight budget. If space is in fact the "final frontier", then we must learn from our mistakes here on earth and minimized the contamination and pollution of the space. As engineers, we have a moral responsibility to do everything in our power to preserve the environment. We are all stakeholder in this issue because it involves our tax money to fund a lot of these outer space project. But more important emphazies should be made on precerving and taking good care of the evironment we live in and the ones we explore such the outerspace. Back

American citizens throw away millions of tons of garbage each year, and this trash has to go somewhere. While there are projects underway to clean and reuse this refuse most of it gets dumped into huge landfills. These landfills are disgusting festering blisters on our country's landscape. But people continue to consume and throw away more and more in the name of convenience. As they see it, when things get old, throw it away and get a new one. They blame the government for the trash problem, but the truth blame should be placed on themselves.

Humans tend to think of space as infinite, that is true as far as we can tell, however the space around Earth is not infinite. After the Space race began in the late 1950’s countries began sending satellites into space for various purposes. Today these Satellites are very important to everyday life, but there is a looming problem that has often been overlooked. Low Earth orbit, where most satellites and spacecraft are located is filled with the remains of many old and decaying satellites. Space debris is very dangerous for any human or structure in space and could eventually make low Earth orbit too hazardous to ever use again.