A fresh departure in materials and design application. The designer explored ways to value add and use plastic shopping bags as a medium (ahead of the current bans on plastic shopping bags). The molded vase is an eco-friendly and smart design that illustrates an important direction for design activity to move. Design can become the primary tool in addressing the environmental crisis looming in the near future. Politics aside, the fact that it uses local bags, give each vase a distinct pattern, and a snap shot of where they are from.