num_pages: 32
description: Plastic bags are cheap and easy to use. But what happens when a bag breaks or is no longer needed? In Njau Gambia people simply dropped the bags and went on their way. One plastic bag became two. Then ten. Then a hundred.The bags accumulated in ugly heaps alongside roads. Water pooled in them bringing mosquitoes and disease. Some bags were burned leaving behind a terrible smell. Some were buried but they strangled gardens. They killed livestock that tried to eat them. Something had to change.Isatou Ceesay was that change. She found a way to recycle the bags and transform her community. This inspirational true story shows how one person's actions really can make a difference in our world.
language: English
title: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
publisher: Millbrook Press