Wow, that's... disgusting. I didn't realize we're polluting space as well as our earth. No offense, but we're pretty pathetic.

Sometimes we are.
But, more importantly, now we've cluttered the heavens, how do we clean them?

What about sending up people or a drone which ccan scan the satellites to see which are active, and knock the ones that aren't active

down to earth with all the useless military weapons to propel it?

We already have ways to control satellites that are active. When they say 'space junk' they mean lame stuff simply bobbing around and

being a nuisance. Maneuvering through space debris is tough, through dangerous space debris? [shivers]

Maybe the easy way would be to knock them into the atmosphere, so they burn up, like you'd mentioned, but then we may

lose useful material...

Well, if they're classified as 'space junk', then they might not be very useful. It could be useful to an extent, but the material would

have to be transported back to Earth to reuse it. Also, if they can control the satellites, they could move them out of the way while

something goes up and knocks the debris down to earth.

'Space junk' are generally machines that have been sent up there for a purpose, like taking pictures, but have lost the ability to do that

one measly thing. This still means all that metal that was used in it is still there- and it may include rarer earth metals, too. like gold.

What if we simply got a shuttle with a good shield to push 'em all out of orbit, but in a planned way that avoids their flying into trouble.