If you're wandering what to do with all the plastic bags sitting around the house, Boissevain School has the answer.

Grade one and two students are collecting clean, used shopping bags as part of the Bag Up Manitoba Program put on by Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba.

"We're trying to show them just how quickly these bags accumulate and a better way to use them perhaps than throwing them in the garbage," said Teacher Shelly Mills. "Just even an awareness that there are certainly better ways to collect their groceries from the grocery store and bring them home."

Mills notes last year they collected over 10,000 bags and received a planter made from recycled material. Bigger prizes will be given out depending on how many bags the school is able to collect.

She says people can drop their bags off at the school, preferably in bundles of 10.