Use of plastic bags causes huge other issues, apart from just the energy consumed to make and transport them. They are often thrown anywhere after use, are ligh

Use of plastic bags causes huge other issues, apart from just the energy consumed to make and transport them. They are often thrown anywhere after use, are light, so fly around, even to medium distances, clog up all sorts of places, including land and water bodies. In India (and other countries where cattle roam free, even in towns), animals that eat them (or rather bite them to get at some food in the bags), are sometimes found choked/suffocated to death, cows particularly. Also, a big one, poor/homeless people collect plastic waste (not only bags, also plastic pieces used for packing, thermocol, etc.) and in winter burn them at night to keep themselves warm as well as to cook. That causes a lot of pollution, including, I've read, toxic dioxins from burning plastic, which is banned to do in many developed countries. I do know that preventing some of these things are only solving symptoms or superficial causes. But they are a problem all the same.