Litter: Recycling and Fishing Nets

Litter and rubbish are great problems, aren’t they?
Litter is garbage like food, paper and cans on the ground or in the street. Where many people live together, litter is a problem. People don’t always put their garbage in the garbage can. It’s easier to drop a paper than to find a garbage can for it. But litter is ugly. It makes the city look dirty, and it spoils the view. Litter makes the city look unattractive and can cause further problems like attracting pests. Food litter attracts pests such as mice and rats. The more food pests have, the more they will breed.
The wind blows papers far away. Often they are difficult to catch. When they blow against a fence, they stay there. This fence is a wall of garbage. Sweetie papers blowing around our cities are one thing, but the worst type of trash dumped on our streets has got to be food packaging and cigarette butts.
Smoking related rubbish is now the biggest litter problem, with cigarette litter reported to be found on 78% of our streets. Research shows that smokers usually drop their cigarette ends on the floor because they believe that they have nowhere else to put them. If you are a smoker please put out your cigarette ends and put them in the bin.
Animals may get trapped or poisoned with litter in their habitats. Cigarette butts and filters are a threat to wildlife and have been found in the stomachs of fish, birds and whales, who have mistaken them for food. Also animals can get trapped in the rubbish and be in serious discomfort. For example, the plastic used to hold beverage cans, can get wrapped around animals' necks and cause them to suffocate as they grow. Other instances where animals could be harmed by litter include broken glass lacerating the paws of dogs, cats, and other small mammals, fishing nets caught on the necks of seals and turtles, etc.
The government should clamp down on rubbish droppers-people do not think twice about dropping it-in fact I think nowadays they just drop it without realizing it because it is the norm. The police never pull anyone up about it because they are usually driving instead of walking and if they do see anything it’s too much trouble-they are probably on the way to have their lunch.
Some people want to control litter. They never throw litter themselves; they work together in groups to clean up the city. In most places litter is against the law. The law punishes people who throw garbage on the streets. They usually pay a fine, and occasionally they go to jail.
Sometimes it's seems to me we are a special virus on our planet and it's not because I've seen a lot of films. I live in the center but I can't look out of the window because of the rubbish which is everywhere. We keep doing harm, we just can't imagine our life without doing it, it's our people's nature and to stop it we should change our thinking.