Look at our eco-bags!

　　Chen Lisi holding her bamboo basket. PHOTO BY ZENG BIN

　　DO you still get free plastic bags from the supermarket? Things will change soon.

　　To protect the environment, most supermarkets in China will stop providing (提供) free plastic bags. If you don't want to pay money to buy them, you'll have to bring your own shopping bag.

　　What kind of bags will be the best to bring? Students in Kunming Xinying Middle School have some good ideas.

　　Recently 54 students of the school held an activity in which they made their own environmentally-friendly shopping bags.

　　Most students used old clothes to make their bags. They painted pictures like the Olympic rings on them.

　　But Wang Shuncheng, a Junior 2 boy, chose a different material (材料). He made his bag with old newspaper. Is a newspaper bag strong enough to hold shopping? Wang says it is, "No problem. I put six bottles of water in the bag," he said. "It's strong enough!"

　　Chen Lisi, a girl, had a more traditional way to make her bag – she weaved (编织) a bamboo basket. It was not an easy job. With her grandfather's help, Chen spent a whole afternoon making it. She also weaved wool (毛线) flowers on the basket.

　　Making bags was not all the students did. They had another job: to persuade (说服) their parents and relatives to use environmentally-friendly shopping bags instead of plastic ones. The school will show the bags so that shops and stores can get inspiration (灵感) from the students' work.

　　各种袋子怎么说？

　　cloth bag 布袋

　　paper bag 纸袋

　　food bag 食品袋

　　trash bag 垃圾袋