What is this, a geek version of one-upsmanship? Now the Italians are offering their own plan for cleaning up low-Earth orbit: a robotic satellite that will slap a thruster onto larger pieces of debris and light it. This rivals the Japanese fishing-net idea and the American ground-based laser plan.
There’s apparently a second American proposal involving ground-based lasers, which fires at the junk at an angle that will slow it down so that it eventually drops out of orbit and burns up. I wasn’t able to find the article I read on that though.