Plastic Bags: Environmental Enemy

You're out of snacks. Oh no. Time to make the trip to Wally World and stock up. I mean come on, how else are you supposed to concentrate during those long study sessions in the dorm? I personally need something to munch on constantly. However, after purchasing my bag of chips and walking up to the register, when the cashier looks up at me and asks, "Would you like a bag for this?" I will opt out of adding another environmentally-damaging plastic bag to the collection sitting under our dorm bathroom's sink. The environmental damage caused by plastic bags is enormous. Plastic makes up 80% of the volume of litter on roads, parks, and beaches and makes up 90% of floating litter in the ocean. In every square mile of ocean there are over 46,000 pieces of plastic. This hurts so many turtles, fish, and other aquatic animals. We get to live without plastic objects in our food, choking us to death and killing off our species; why don't they?
So what I'm saying fellow college students is, recycle as much as you can, bring canvas bags with you when you go grocery shopping, definitely don't litter, and reduce your amount of environmental damage as a whole.