Could see where this was headed almost as soon as you started and was like [facepalm] but humans seem to very deliberately have a ridiculously short term memory XD
That beach looks kind of like one of the ones on my home island before it started getting cleaned regularly (it's not even our trash, it comes in from the tide -_- but at least it doesn't look as terrible now).
RE: Challenge #02917-G360: Waste Not Want Not