A gigantic Kevlar bag may be a idea.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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There was a really good anime about exactly this kind of situation
Would slowing them down be enough? I'm thinking along the lines of a magnet.
If you allow them down then they will get pulled into the atmosphere and burn up. The ISS stays in orbit because it's moving so fast and needs a push now and again to keep the speed up.
Space Garbage Men, job of the future. In all seriousness, I'm glad they're looking at solutions, because this issue can get out of hand very fast from what I've read. If we had no regard for the build up of space trash, we could have a halo of debris making leaving the planet impossible, or at the very least, dangerous.