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So encourage people to pick it up.

For populated beaches setup a bunch of stands by the beaches that take plastic trash by the kilo and pay out some way. They might have to be manned to prevent people just stealing the whole unit to get the money.

With bottles you could just melt them and turn them into fresh 3D printer material.

For un-populated areas you'd need to do periodic sweeps. Then build some kind of robotic cleaning crew to catch stuff still floating. Like this one this kid invented to harvest oceanic plastic.

The Christmas we knows today - with the garish fat man dressed in red and gaudy lights that waste gigawatt hours of energy for nothing every year - is a pure invention of the Coca Cola company, designed solely to sell Coca Cola products

Since you seem to be so critical of "corporate bullshit" I'm surprised you take their statements at face value.
Coca Cola's "Santa Claus invention" is not at all as clear cut as they make it seem — see these old posters from the White Rock company, for example, for Santa Clauses that drink not just Coke...

The Christmas we knows today - with the garish fat man dressed in red and gaudy lights that waste gigawatt hours of energy for nothing every year - is a pure invention of the Coca Cola company, designed solely to sell Coca Cola products. Also, the contemporary Christmas "spirit", based on ultra-consumerism and overeating, that start at least a month before the actual fucking Christmas Eve, is nothing but a massive effort by companies to brainwash people into buying tons of shit without realizing they're being manipulated into consuming. When was the last time Christmas was a strictly christian celebration, with Christians going to church to pray for a whole day and night, while the Jews, Muslims and all the others went about their business as usual on December 24?

So no, Google didn't steal the Christmas spirit: they *are* the Christmas spirit. They're pushing their products, like everybody else

Well Uber serves a few important tasks: they make sure that quality is okay. Obviously its not perfect, but really bad offenders can't hide, but will be baned quickly. Compare that to taxis, where in some cities you couldn't be sure whether you'd be robbed or raped when taking a ride. Uber solves this problem, at least mostly.

Yes, they are the evil middlemen, but they aren't much different from McDonalds or other franchise model companies. Even CocaCola does this:

http://www.coca-colacompany.co...

So if many well established companies have been doing this for decades and centuries, then why not Uber?