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(Fincke) Each ounce, each
gram that gets sent up to
space costs a lot of money
and a lot of effort to get
it on a rocket and go up
into space, so we try to
conserve and recycle as
much as we can while we are
onboard the International
Space Station. However, it
just works out sometimes
that sometimes you have
things to throw away --
all the way from your food
containers to a sheet of
paper that you use both
sides several times and
sometimes it's just taking
up too much room. So we
have to throw things away.
So we have trashcans aboard
the space station that
once we fill up, we put
inside a cargo ship that's
coming back to planet Earth.
But these cargo ships that
come back to planet Earth,
they burn up in the atmosphere.
So, it's a perfect way to
get rid of "space waste" so
to speak is to burn up in
the atmosphere. That way it
doesn't hurt anything on
planet Earth -- no pollution
because everything goes back
to its component atoms. So
we do that with all of our
waste all the way from waste
paper, food waste or even
waste that we use out of or
bodies -- what I'm saying
is number two. We kind of
throw all of the stuff away.
We burn it up in the
atmosphere, no harm to
Mother Earth.