Comment on Astronaut Tests Stink-Free Space Pantsu by a nony mouse:

Just for geekiness: Anything that can carry “downmass” away from the station is pressed into service to do just that, including passenger craft such as the Shuttle.

But the primary garbage removal is provided by the Progress cargo ships. As the cargo is unloaded at the station it is replaced with the station’s accumulated garbage. When the Progress is deorbited the garbage burns up with it, with the remnants falling into the Indian Ocean.

As for laundry… they just got basic water recycling going so doing laundry is a next-generation technology :)



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