Space debris problem getting worse, say scientists

Sounds like Kessler syndrome is actually coming to reality. Do we need to recruit junk collectors of outer space like in the anime Planetes ?

Krag pointed to two events that had amplified the problem at a stroke, creating debris fields with the potential to generate further junk as pieces smashed into each other.

The first was in January 2007, when China tested an anti-satellite weapon on an old Fengyun weather satellite -- a move that sparked an outcry by debris experts at the time.

The other was in February 2009, when an Iridium telecoms satellite and Kosmos-2251, a Russian military satellite, accidentally collided.

Thanks, guys