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My guess would be that the energy required to re-direct wayward space cargo to 'safe disposal' in the sun would be so great that an additional vehicle of some size would be required.
Perhaps send a Tonka car with a big booster rather than a Tesla then. There needed to be a dummy payload to test the rocket but it didn't need to go in the Mars direction.
jellybaby-
The end result is the same - the mass expelled form the booster remains in space, except spread out.
Again, I've not dome the calculations, but my guess is that the deltav required for sending something into the sun is so great that even sending a negligible mass would require fuel payload with a mass of magnitudes greater than that required to send a car into Mars orbit.
Resulting in millions of miles of tiny bits of litter.
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I don't know why they didn't think of this.
I mean, it's not exactly rocket science.
NotThamesWater
My guess would be that the energy required to re-direct wayward space cargo to 'safe disposal' in the sun would be so great that an additional vehicle of some size would be required.