Ocean

In the spirit of Styrofoam, I google image searched "ocean of garbage" and this came up.  Seeing the garbage so close to the shore, I assumed this was a shot taken in the third world.  I guessed East Asia, Amy guessed Colombia.  The caption once we followed the picture to its website proved us both wrong:

ALTERED OCEANS: Tons of garbage that swept down the Los Angeles River after a storm is corralled by a boom in Long Beach, Ca. Most plastic trash makes its way to the ocean and can be found washed up on beaches around the world. “Every little piece of plastic manufactured in the past 50 years that made it into the ocean is still out there somewhere,” Anthony L. Andrady, a polymer chemist at the Research Triangle Institute said. “Because there is no effective mechanism to break it down.”

It's coming.