Individual players not role playing properly is one thing, but a government not obeying it's own laws and destroying licensed POBs is just sad.
Make new laws, increase the fee to obtain/renew licenses, impose reasonable restrictions on how far a POB can degrade before the military can make boom are just a few examples of what could be done to properly address the problem of space trash. I agree that there is a problem of too many abandoned POBs floating around. This, however, is not the correct course of action.
Unfortunately, the toxics chased away a dev that had a fix for this problem. But I'll just shut up and color.
It ain't about what you are capable of, it's about what you're willing to do.