In about six decades or so of space exploration humanity has really made a mess of the space surrounding our planet. That's because most of the objects we've sent to orbit for various reasons are ...
Not to mention that the biggest junk-producing nations, like China, don't care about it, so it would just be a handful of responsible nations running cleaning operations for the irresponsible ones.
Oh this is nice. I'm delighted that this is a least some form of movement in dealing with space debris. We might not get a "Planetes" (one of my favorite animes, which is about a human team that ...