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In broader context: Corporations need to pay for the waste they leave behind. The price would be the cost to recover and cleanup the junk.

I believe creating space junk would be rather expensive to clean up. Same thing for ocean waste. if corporations put cheap non bio degradable plastic in the ocean they will have to pay cleanup cost.

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I always wondered why no one doesn't put up deorbit or retrieval bounties on all abandoned/dead debris in orbit. If you can prove you deorbited it then you get the money, if not then someone else has a shot at it. Obviously, it needs more planning than that but the overall concept I think is a good starting point.

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