Proposition for collection and usage of space junk in orbit.

We should keep space junk in space.

Everyone is looking to bring the debris back to earth, what if we keep them there?

There are a few different companies (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, …) working on a few different techniques, methods, and technologies to capture and clean the space junk orbiting around the earth.
There is, however, one thing in common in all of them, and that’s the fact that they are all looking to de-orbit the space junk by either burning it through the atmosphere or if too big, letting it hit the earth in unpopulated areas.

Here I suggest another option to consider that I couldn’t find in any of these projects ( LMK if there is a project that I missed ).

Space-junk mining.

In short, we don’t need to send them back to earth, we can create a repository of them in orbit, like an island of compact space junk, glued together (or a few of them if needed, based on their orbital properties), which should be much cheaper, and easier to do as it takes a lot of energy to de-orbit them all. it also makes it easier to make reusable machines to do…