History Main / LandfillBeyondTheStars

* ''Literature/GarbageWorld'', by Charles Pratt, has an asteroid be used as the dumping ground for the trash of the [[PleasurePlanets pleasure asteroids]].

* ''Literature/GarbageWorld'', by Charles Pratt, has asteroid be used as the dumping ground for the trash of the pleasure asteroids.

** Bracca from ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder Jedi: Fallen Order]]'' is a planet-wide scrapyard whose sole purpose has become salvaging decommissioned starships from the Clone Wars. Its landscape is dominated by crashed Venator-class Star Destroyers and the odd Trade Federation Lucrehulk. The planet is even home to a Sarlaac-style superpredator that can feed on metal and industrial waste, and that they keep around to feed the trash that can't be easily repurposed.
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' has [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Junk_planets a truly impressive number]] of worlds dedicated entirely to dumping industrial garbage in. Generally, these worlds tend to be entirely covered in mountains of rusted metal and wrecked machinery, and to have skies blocked out by unbroken clouds of smog and toxic fumes.

* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' prominently features Raxus Prime, which was so polluted from its long history as a manufacturing center that it eventually became this. In the same game, it's also described by PROXY as the place ''[[ElephantGraveyard "where all Droids go to die..."]]''

* ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity'': Some missions allow the PC to earn money by transporting garbage to uninhabited planets and dumping it.

** "[[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/Armageddon1998''-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.

** Enceladus("Saturn's junk moon") is used a dumping ground for antique satellites.

* ''Series/TheMandalorian''. At the beginning of "The Believer", one character is serving time in what seems to be a massive scrap heap junkyard, cutting up Imperial TIE fighter for the New Republic. While the entire planet may not look like this, it's still immense, with burning garbage heaps stretching beyond the horizon in every direction.

* ''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}}.''

* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' prominently features Raxus Prime, which was so polluted from its long history as a manufacturing center that it eventually became this. In the same game, it's also described by PROXY as a place ''[[ElephantGraveyard "where all Droids go to die..."]]''

* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' prominently features Raxus Prime, which was so polluted from its long history as a manufacturing center that it eventually became this.

* "Literature/TheWomanInDelReyCrater", a short story by Creator/LarryNiven, 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.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': Some galaxies have planets covered in garbage, which the Gearmo living on them want to get rid of it. As a result, Mario is asked to [[IncrediblyLamePun dispose]] of the garbage by either blowing it up with Bob-ombs or burning it with the Fire Flower in order to get a star as a reward.

** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': Jakku is a downplayed version. It's by and large a desert planet, but it's littered with wrecked machines from a major battle that took place there -- including full-sized crashed Star Destoryers -- and the local economy, such as it is, focuses on cannibalizing these for usable parts.

* ''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.

* ''Series/Halo2022''. A flashback to Makee's DarkAndTroubledPast shows her as a child slave worker on such a site before she was discovered by Covenant forces.
* ''Series/{{Lexx}}'': One episode visits one such world whose system's other planets were mutually annihilated by war, leaving a few hundred employees stranded on the landfill planet. [[HiveQueen It got worse.]]

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
** The ExpandedUniverse has Beylix, essentially a giant storage yard for the United Reclamation company.
** Also, to some degree, Boros.