Please refrain from using "fact". You are being misleading. This is your source, the article you link to quotes at least two sources; the first one from which you have the "131 times" quote mostly concerns "global
warming potential", the second one "cited the short and long term adverse effects to marine ecosystems, solid waste management, global resource consumption and litter".
While global warming does affect all of earths environment, and has potentially very grave consequences, the second report/quote shows the very immediate (and long term) direct consequences of plastic on the environment.
RE: Environmental fact: Minimal usage of cotton bags: 131 days