Universitätsforscher äußern Bedenken hinsichtlich des cislunaren Weltraummülls

>In terms of moon-circling rubbish, there is no natural cleaning mechanism like the drag Earth’s atmosphere induces on orbiting flotsam.

>Fragments circuiting the airless moon just stay there, bound in the lunar gravity.

That depends on the orbit and altitude.

Most low lunar orbits (<100 km) are unstable and decay relatively quickly due to the effects of lunar MASCONs.

Above ~700 km, perturbations due to the Earth serve to destabilize lunar orbits.

Debris is never good, but implying it will persist forever in cislunar space is disingenuous.