History Main / LandfillBeyondTheStars

For this trope to work at all, the setting must have ''very'' [[CasualInterstellarTravel Casual (and VERY CHEAP) Interstellar Travel.]] There are, however, ways to harden this trope: make the planet in question a useless dwarf planet in a nearby asteroid belt, Ceres-like (delta-v to reach such a planet could be really low), used only to dump garbage of space origin from the same system, and equipped with dirty recycling industries that make it more efficient to fling refuse there, rather than into the star. Rarely will it ever be a recycling planet of some kind, which would justify moving massive amounts of junk there. For this trope on a smaller scale, see DownInTheDumps.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'': The planet Duplo is covered in piles of Lego bricks that the Duplo aliens sort and bring to Watevra Wan'abi's temple.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation seems to have found [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-364 one on Jupiter's moon Io]], where a portal periodically dumps immense loads of high-tech garbage and scrap -- including stable transuranic elements -- to be incinerated in the lava of one of the moon's volcanoes.

** "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E8ABigPieceOfGarbage A Big Piece Of Garbage]]" has the crew of ''Planet Express'' sent to destroy a ball of garbage that was previously thrown into orbit, ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''-style. The bomb, however, "misfires", and the Earth resorts to a different tactic: rolling up an identically-sized garbage ball and tossing it at the big ball of trash.

* Real World example of the sort of thinking that leads to this trope: the Apollo astronauts jettisoned urine (they said it made a beautiful sight) but were required to store all feces and return it to Earth; apparently the idea of turds in lunar orbit was too much for the mission planners, despite the fact that such matter would quickly desiccate in the cold vacuum. This was actually fairly sensible, as fresh urine is pretty sterile, whereas excrement is full of living Earth microbes that we don't want to contaminate the rest of the solar system with.

* ''Series/Space1999'' starts with the Moon being used as a nuclear waste dump.

** One episode has the crew of ''Planet Express'' sent to destroy a ball of garbage that was previously thrown into orbit, ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''-style. The bomb, however, "misfires", and the Earth resorts to a different tactic: rolling up an identically-sized garbage ball and tossing it at the big ball of trash.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': The Elemental Pole of Smoke, the lower fifth of Autochthonia -- the world-body of the Primordial of industry and progress, a mechanical world bigger than some planets -- serves as Autochthon's digestive system by collecting every piece of scrap falling down from the rest of his self, which gather there in immense fields and mountains of industrial cast-offs that are steadily eroded into slurry by ever-present corrosive gases and acidic rains and carried to the rest of Autochthonia for reuse. Despite all odds it's actually home to large communities of living creatures, mostly unlucky spirits stranded there with the garbage streams, Void-maddened gremlins, and degenerate tribes of human mutants capable of breathing the caustic air. The city of Xexas, which hangs upside down from the top of the Pole, lives mostly by sending scavenging expeditions to the bottom to recover useful artifacts and materials.

* ''Literature/RickyRicottasMightyRobot'' had Saturn and Uranus as planetary landfills, with Uncle Unicorn allowing [[MythologyGag villains from previous books]] to dump their trash on Uranus (Saturn was just polluted because of the stinkbugs).

In many cases, the landfill-planet will even be habitable, if only barely, for the convenience of the protagonists who will naturally end up spending time there at some point. Locals will usually be scavengers of some description, picking through the mountains of junk and/or freshly arrived loads for anything they can use or sell, which may or may not include the main characters. Hobo cities built out of scrap optional.

* ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'': Scraparap. Described by the game's manual as "the junkyard of the universe", BigBad Devan Shell sent his scavenging underlings to loot the planet for spare parts with the objective of building his Mega Air Bases.

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'': In an episode focusing on how littering is wrong, the gang travels to an Earth-like planet where littering is SeriousBusiness. Gian and Suneo get caught littering and are sent to work at a disposal site where all garbage is compressed into giant balls and illegally launched into orbit.

-->-- '''Daniel''', ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' features the planet Caamas, which became this after it was utterly devastated by orbital bombardment. This was something of a charitable endeavour, as the Caamasi were at least paid for the use of their (now mostly useless) planet.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'', Astral World is being destroyed... by humans intentionally dumping their garbage in it.

In many cases, the landfill-planet will even be habitable, if only barely, for the convenience of the protagonists who will naturally end up spending time there at some point. Hobo cities built out of scrap optional.

* ''TabletopGame/{{HoL}}'' (''Human Occupied Landfill'') takes place on one of these planets. It also takes the concept one step further and turns it into a landfill for people: the planet is the [[FunWithAcronyms Confederation Of World's]] only prison.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': The Elemental Pole of Smoke, the lower fifth of Autochthonia -- the world-body of the Primordial of industry and progress, a mechanical world bigger than some planets -- serves as Autochthon's digestive system by collecting every piece of scrap falling down from the rest of his self, collecting there in immense fields and mountains of industrial cast-offs that are steadily eroded into slurry by ever-present corrosive gases and acidic rains and carried to the rest of Autochthonia for reuse. Despite all odds it's actually home to large communities of living creatures, mostly unlucky spirits stranded there with the garbage streams, Void-maddened gremlins, and degenerate tribes of human mutants capable of breathing the caustic air. The city of Xexas, which hangs upside down from the top of the Pole, lives mostly by sending scavenging expeditions to the bottom to recover useful artifacts and materials.

In SpeculativeFiction, one will sometimes find that entire planets get used as interstellar landfills. Implicitly this means that it is [[CasualInterstellarTravel somehow worthwhile to launch refuse into space and take it to another planet, possibly one that is located in another solar system]], in order to dump it there, rather than [[HurlItIntoTheSun give it a push towards the nearest star]], dump it on a nearby worthless, uninhabitable rock, or just recycle the stuff (not to mention massive and cheap energy sources that make such launches worthwhile in the first place-- just getting into space in the first place is [[GravitySucks a lot harder than most people think]]).

* An episode of the ''Anime/{{Kirby|Right Back At Ya}}'' anime involved aliens trying to turn Popstar into one of these, as part of Dedede paying off his debts. Key word: Trying.
* The ironically named Shangri-La colony from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'' is mostly used as a scrapyard, collecting all the wreckage from the space wars that have been raging intermittently for the past 9 years. [[{{Joisey}} Unsurprisingly it's mostly populated by devil-may-care teens who dream of running away to a better world and lots of people with names ending in vowels.]]
* In the [[{{Animesque}} American manga]] ''[=EV=],'' the robotic alien Evie encounters seems to come from a world like this--specifically, a world [[ShoutOut based on]] Junkion from ''The {{Transformers}}.''

* An episode of ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' involves how littering is wrong. The gang travel to an Earth-like planet where littering is SeriousBusiness. Gian and Suneo got caught littering and sent to work at a disposal site where all garbage is compressed into giant balls and illegally launched into orbit.
** This becomes a BrokenAesop due to a certain earlier episode. Nobita and Doraemon couldn't agree on how to split a dorayaki, so Doraemon lets out a gadget that will make something perpetually split into two while retaining the mass of the original (i.e. matter ''ex nihilo''). Greed gets the better of them, and they let at least 1 dorayaki to remain so they will always have a dorayaki to eat. However, they eventually reach their stomach's limit, and can't do anything about the [[GreyGoo infinitely splitting dorayaki]]. The solution? Round up all the affected dorayaki and launch them to outer space. Out of sight, out of mind... [[FridgeHorror at least for their lifetime]].

* In issue #12 of the Marvel comic of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'', Starbuck, Boomer, and Athena, on recon patrol, stumble across Scavenge World, a planet composed entirely of spare parts and inhabited by alien scavengers. They are captured and brought before the throne of Eurayle, the leader of the scavenger "family." Meanwhile, the Galactica is buffeted by an unexpected Cylon attack. The Cylons are momentarily averted, and the Fleet arrives at Scavenge World. Learning of the Galactica's situation, Eurayle makes a proposal - she will use her powers of the mind to free Commander Adama from the Memory Machine if she can receive Lieutenant Starbuck in return. Starbuck eventually agrees to her offer. After the Cylons are defeated, Starbuck stays behind with her while the Colonial fleet moves on. Starbuck escapes from Scavenge World and returns to the fleet in issue #19. Eurayle pursues the fleet in issue #20, and Starbuck and Apollo meet with her. Starbuck agrees to fight her in a duel to the death. Eurayle wins, but after she leaves it is revealed that Starbuck faked his own death. The Scavenge World ship that Starbuck used to escape winds up giving the Colonials the coordinates to Earth and the series ends with the fleet making a hyperjump to their final destination.
* Morbus in the Archie ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures'' comics is a garbage planet within Dimension X, where Krang is banished by Cherubae.

* In ''ComicBook/StarWarsAllegiance'', the Resistance have made camp on The Garbage Planet Of Anoat.

* The planet Duplo from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'' is covered in piles of Lego bricks that the Duplo aliens sort and bring to Watevra Wan'abi's temple.
* In ''Romie-0 and Julie-8'', the titular robots escape to the junk planet, Trash-O-Lot and run afoul of an enormous Junk Monster named Sparepartski.

* In the film ''Film/{{Soldier}}'', the main character had been dumped on a "landfill planet" because he was taken for dead.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' averts it with Coruscant. The planet's waste is recycled or composted where applicable, and the truly hazardous, irreclaimable garbage gets packed into containers and shot into orbit, where it gets a subsequent heave toward the sun.
** Jakku from ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' is supposed to be this. It was more obvious in early concept art.
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' / ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] meanwhile has a whole [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Junk_planets bunch of them.]]
* An early script for ''Film/BladeRunner'' opened on an "Off-World Termination Dump" where they bury expired androids. Three replicants that had been faking their deaths kill their dumpsters and escape to Earth.

* Creator/LarryNiven's short story "Literature/TheWomanInDelReyCrater" involves humanity dumping most of their nuclear waste into a single crater on the Moon. This is actually explained pretty well: the radioactive waste is hideously dangerous ''now'', but we may find a way to use it at some later time. The Moon has no environment to damage, is very sparsely populated, and is relatively easy for this near-future society to reach, so it makes an excellent landfill until recycling technology catches up.
* ''Garbage World'' by Charles Pratt. An asteroid is used as the dumping ground for the trash of the pleasure asteroids.
* In the ''Literature/RedDwarf'' novelizations, the Garbage World on which Lister ended up stranded turned out to be [[spoiler:{{Earth|AllAlong}}, after being voted such in a Series/EurovisionSongContest vote]].

* ''Literature/TheCyberiad'' featured a substory about a piece of junk dumped into a landfill planet, triggering a chain reaction that led to [[InstantAIJustAddWater the creation of an AI]].
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' features the planet Caamas as this after the planet was utterly devastated by orbital bombardment. This was something of a charitable endeavour, as the Caamasi were at least paid for the use of their (now mostly useless) planet.
* Waste Dump B-19 in Creator/GraemeBase's interplanetary romp ''The Worst Band in the Universe''. Not only is it covered with garbage; it's infested with [[ManEatingPlant Man-Eating Plants]] that react to the slightest noise, making it the perfect place to exile rebellious criminal rock stars.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]] begins with the Doctor and company searching around one of these, which according to the Doctor is in an entire junkyard ''galaxy'', but those are quite rare.

* The setting of a ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' episode. The system's other planets were mutually annihilated by war, leaving a few hundred employees stranded on the landfill planet. [[HiveQueen It got worse.]]
* The '70s sci-fi spoof ''Series/{{Quark}}'' was set on an interstellar garbage truck, presumably headed to one of these planets.
* Gerry Anderson's ''Series/Space1999'' started with the moon being used as a nuclear waste dump.
* In the "Shatnerverse" corner of ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], a resurrected Kirk gets dumped onto a Borg planet used as a holding station for refuse before it's recycled. This is partially explained in that the Borg canonically have easy interstellar "transwarp", but it's still a Class-M planet (inhabited, even) when any random location in space would do, and far less efficient than just recycling on-site.
* In a different version of this trope, the Malon in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' dump their dangerously radioactive "antimatter waste" (which is essentially nuclear waste - whatever's left after you do the energy generation that you can't use - but antimatter) in other regions of space, with less scrupulous captains not bothering to look for uninhabited ones. They do give a brief HandWave about why they can't just HurlItIntoTheSun, though; doing so often enough would apparently cause a star to ''explode''. ''Voyager'' tried to offer them waste-cleaning technology, but the one captain they tried this with declined because he didn't want to lose his waste disposal job, which is supposedly super lucrative.

* The darkly humorous ''TabletopGame/{{HoL}}'' (''Human Occupied Landfill'') takes place on one of these planets. It also takes the concept one step further and turns it into a landfill for people: the planet is the [[FunWithAcronyms Confederation Of World's]] only prison.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}''

* The ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' setting of ''TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' features Empty worlds, parallel Earths where no intelligent life has evolved and some where no life has evolved at all. The latter are occasionally used as dumping grounds for hazardous waste. Nonetheless, Homeline's Greenpeace is still opposed to the idea.
* Given the sheer scale and variety of environments, it's almost impossible for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' to NOT have a bunch of these. Interesting twist though: they weren't dedicated trash planets, but rather "hive worlds" that are so overpopulated, overdeveloped and over-mined that they're literally out of obtainable resources, the surface covered in barren rock, polluted (if not boiled-off/siphoned-away) seas and sprawling arcologies that house billions. Many of these worlds subsist on simply scrounging for material in sub-continent-sized piles of industrial refuse, and mass recycling of all water and organic products. Yes, that includes people. The lucky ones that reach this state are able to trade off millions of people a year (or month, or ''week'')) as labor or military in exchange for fresh sustenance, although they of course just squander it away just as quickly.

* ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation'' had one of those planets, the moon of one of the factions' capital planet. Good thing about the junk, too. The moon was all mined out to cover the surface of said world in a metal shell, so the wreckage was the only source of war resources.
* New Junk City, the first level of ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'', looks like one of these on the surface, [[spoiler:but [[AllThereInTheManual according to the game's documentation]] the level actually takes place in [[SubvertedTrope Texas]].]]
* A more reasonable version appears in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''; the planet Korlus is used as a junkyard/recycling plant for old space-craft, and only those that were near a [[PortalNetwork Mass Relay]]. It's a dirty and dangerous task due to the various volatile chemicals released during the process. So it is less of a planetary junkyard, and more like a planet whose primary industry is ship-breaking. In an interesting twist, the in-universe fluff material makes it clear that spaceship junkyards don’t actually cover the planet's surface, they’re just its primary industry and main source of revenue. Korlus ''does'' have a ''reputation'' for being this trope, however, with the same fluff mentioning that a Council member dismissively called the place "a garbage scow with a climate" in a press conference. It's also noted for [[WretchedHive insanely high levels of crime (organized and otherwise) and an astronomical murder rate]].

* Stage 2 of ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Gaiden'', named "Requiem for Revengers". As the level name suggests, you'll meet the partially-functioning wreckage of [[NostalgiaLevel past Gradius bosses]] trapped in the junk.

* Some of the planets in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' had planets covered in garbage in which the Gearmo living on it wants to get rid of it, and as a result he wants Mario to [[IncrediblyLamePun dispose]] the garbage by either blowing it up with Bob-ombs or burning it with the Fire Flower in order to give him a star as a reward.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Deponia}}'' series takes place entirely on a world like this.
* ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' has the planet Zoness. Formerly a popular vacation spot of the Lylat System, Andross turned the place into his own personal wastebasket, which noticeably horrifies your team-members. It also appeared as though the copious amounts of toxic waste also mutated the native life on the planet. The usual FridgeLogic about whether it's really more economic to haul all this junk to another planet instead of recycling it or something is averted because Andross was pretty clearly doing it [[ForTheEvulz just to be a dick.]]
** By ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'', if the Zoness multiplayer map is any indication, it seems that the cleanup effort, which is advertised on billboards in the Corneria stage, was successful.
* Scraparap from ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit''. Described by the game's manual as "the junkyard of the universe", BigBad Devan Shell sent his scavenging underlings to loot the planet for spare parts with the objective of building his Mega Air Bases.
* ''StarWars'' ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' prominently features Raxus Prime, which was so polluted from its long history as a manufacturing center that it eventually became this.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'', the Detritus Ring the home of the Rogues faction is this. When the remaining beings in the universe started clustering around Solus the last star, the asteroid belt became a safe dumping ground. Everything from massive dead capitol ships and moonbase-sized colony ships now float among the near-moon-sized asteroids throughout the ring. Along with miners hunting for mineral deposits and salvagers making a tidy profit off the spacecraft graveyard, it quickly became the [[WretchedHive perfect hiding spot for outcasts]] from the universe's remaining civilizations.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'' The third dream world starts in a planet-wide junkyard like this, [[DoAndroidsDream dreamed of and built by the nanobot-controlling AI, Ceres]]. But, as surreal as everything else in the game is, it also has unusual features: like a giant metal hand containing a flying machine, a radio that makes you levitate, three moons based on all three dream worlds, and a massive "Frame in the Sky".
* Pandora in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' is half-junkyard, half-desert. It gets so bad around the settlement of New Haven that a cave system nearby, Tetanus Warrens, has many walls and ceiling made out of garbage and scrap metal.
* The Litter Glitter galaxy in ''VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages'' is where all the garbage produced in the nearby Galawynde galaxy ends up. The main environmental hazards are pieces of junk several times the size of your ship, and there's enough profit to be made in scavenging for salvager gangs to go to war over prime spots.
* In the first ''[[VideoGame/LiloAndStitchGameBoyAdvance Lilo & Stitch]]'' UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance game, [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch Stitch]] crash-lands on a junkyard asteroid called Scum, where he has to find a new spaceship to replace the one that was wrecked in his crash.

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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation seems to have found [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-364 one on Jupiter's moon Io.]]

* Planet Dirt from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', one of [[{{Planetville}} many Irken planets]] dedicated to a [[PlanetOfHats single purpose]].
* Goo (as well as Junkion) in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' (Season 3). Goo seems to be specifically purposed to catching floating garbage in space. That its full name is Goo 8739B suggests there may be a lot more like it.
* The junkyard planet in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "War World."

** Another episode has the characters disposing of electronic waste on "The Third World" (of the Antares system).

* Vulpin in the fluff of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' is a galactic dumping ground totally devoid of all life that's not freakishly mutated by toxic wastes. For perspective, Wildmutt (think a vaguely canine gorilla with no eyes and a massive set of jaws) was sampled from the DNA of a creature native to the place.

* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse and Penfold trek to the moon in order to find the reason for the tides to overrun land on Earth (episode "Turn of the Tide"). There they discover the crater of Copernicus filled to the brim with junked spacecrafts.

* Real World example of the sort of thinking that leads to this trope: the Apollo astronauts jettisoned urine (they said it made a beautiful sight) but were required to store all feces and return it to Earth; apparently the idea of turds in lunar orbit was too much for the mission planners, despite the fact that such matter would quickly desiccate in the cold vacuum.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has Lotho Minor as a textbook example.

* An episode of ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' involves how littering is wrong. The gang travel to an Earth-like planet where littering is SeriousBusiness. Gian and Suneo got caught littering and sent work at a disposal site where all garbage is compressed into giant balls and illegally launched into orbit.

* Morbus in the Archie ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures'' comics is garbage planet within Dimension X, where Krang is banished by Cherubae.

For this trope to work at all, the setting must have ''very'' [[CasualInterstellarTravel Casual (and VERY CHEAP) Interstellar Travel.]] There are, however, ways to harden this trope: make the planet in question a useless dwarf planet in a nearby asteroid belt, Ceres-like (delta-v to reach such a planet could be really low), used only to dump garbage of space origin from the same system, and equipped with dirty recycling industries that make it more efficient to fling refuse there, rather than into the star. Rarely will it ever be a recycling planet of some kind, which would justify moving massive amounts of junk there. For this trope in a smaller scale, see DownInTheDumps.

** This become a BrokenAesop due to a certain earlier episode. Nobita and Doraemon couldn't agree on how to split a dorayaki, so Doraemon lets out a gadget that will make something perpetually split into two while retaining the mass of the original (i.e. matter ''ex nihilo''). Greed gets the better of them, and they let at least 1 dorayaki to remain so they will always have a dorayaki to eat. However, they eventually reach their stomach's limit, and can't do anything about the [[GreyGoo infinitely splitting dorayaki]]. The solution? Round up all the affected dorayaki and launch them to outer space. Out of sight, out of mind... [[FridgeHorror at least for their lifetime]].

* In issue #12 of the Marvel comic of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'', Starbuck, Boomer, and Athena, on recon patrol, stumble across Scavenge World, a planet composed entirely of spare parts and inhabited by alien scavengers. They are captured and brought before the throne of Eurayle, the leader of the scavenger "family." Meanwhile, the Galactica is buffeted by a unexpected Cylon attack. The Cylons are momentarily averted, and the Fleet arrives at Scavenge World. Learning of the Galactica's situation, Eurayle makes a proposal - she will use her powers of the mind to free Commander Adama from the Memory Machine, if she can receive Lieutenant Starbuck in return. Starbuck eventually agrees to her offer. After the Cylons are defeated, Starbuck stays behind with her while the Colonial fleet moves on. Starbuck escapes from Scavenge World and returns to the fleet in issue #19. Eurayle pursues the fleet in issue #20, and Starbuck and Apollo meet with her. Starbuck agrees to fight her in a duel to the death. Eurayle wins, but after she leaves it is revealed that Starbuck faked his own death. The Scavenge World ship that Starbuck used to escape winds up giving the Colonials the coordinates to Earth, and the series ends with the fleet making a hyperjump to their final destination.

* The ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' setting of ''TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' features Empty worlds, parallel Earths where no intelligent life has evolved, and some where no life has evolved at all. The latter are occasionally used as dumping grounds for hazardous waste. Nonetheless, Homeline's Greenpeace is still opposed to the idea.

* Stage 2 of ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Gaiden'', named "Requiem for Revengers". Like the level name suggests, you'll meet the partially-functioning wreckage of [[NostalgiaLevel past Gradius bosses]] trapped in the junk.

* Pandora in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' is half junkyard, half desert. It gets so bad around the settlement of New Haven that a cave system nearby, Tetanus Warrens, has many walls and ceiling made out of garbage and scrap metal.

* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', an alternate universe that's a mash-up of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Franchsie/StarWars'', and ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' regularly sends ships to a dimensional portal in deep space, where they dump toxic waste into whatever dimension happens to be on the other side.

* The Soviets had plans to use their Energiya rocket to launch nuclear waste into a safe, planned solar orbit, but the plan came to nothing thanks to the fall of the USSR. This was less dangerous than it sounds, because the Soviets sited their launch facilities in such a remote and lightly-populated part of their territory that they probably had less chance of hitting some innocent bystander with a failed rocket than NASA did with flightpaths aimed over the sea. Of course these days we can recycle nuclear waste a lot more easily than we could in the late Eighties anyway...