One Plastic Bag
Subtitle: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
By: Miranda Paul ; illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
Contributors: Zunon, Elizabeth, ill
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group; Millbrook Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781467716086
Subjects: Plastic bags; Juvenile literature; Pollution; Recycling (Waste); Plastic bag craft; Recycling (Waste, etc.); Wolof (African people)
Other titles: 1 plastic bag
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.

Isatou Ceesay found a way to recycle the plastic bags and transform her community. This inspirational true story shows how one person's actions really can make a difference in the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Horn Book, January 2015

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School Library Journal starred, December 2014

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