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Space Debris Accountability Tax (SDAT)
A tax levied on all space activities based on their potential to generate debris, with the funds dedicated to research and development of sustainable space technologies and debris removal efforts.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

A giant space-based net, deployed by a consortium of nations, captures a large swath of space debris and guides it into the Earth's atmosphere for incineration.
Extrapolated from The Space Junk Crisis Needs a Recycling Revolution - Scientific American

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