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Originally posted by True_Moose:
Of course, the problem with using it as a waste dump is that it has little to no gravity.
I can just see, 300 years later, some alien spacecraft being knocked out of the air by a Snickers wrapper, and declaring intergalactic war.  
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It has 1/6th G.Its escape velocity is 1 1/6 mile/second. More than enough to keep the snickers out of orbit. And its not like theres any wind to stir thing up.
There is orbital junk however, things that have been discarded over the years but theres been very little activity in lunar orbit. Might be a few bolts and that.
Compare to earth orbit where theres thousands of bits of junk and NORAD has an entire department devoted to making sure nobody gets hit.