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Name: One Plastic Bag : Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
Author: Paul, Miranda
ISBN: [978-1-46771-608-6,1-46771-608-1]

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One Plastic Bag : Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia

Author: Paul, Miranda

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Follett Number: 0657AS1
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Millbrook Press, 2015
Format: 34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 28 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-46771-608-6
ISBN-10: 1-46771-608-1
LCCN: 2014-009382
Dewey: 363.7288
Classifications: Nonfiction

Subjects:

Africa, West

Ceesay, Isatou

Picture Books for Children

Plastic Bag Craft

Plastic Bags

Pollution

Recycling (Waste)

Wolof (African People)

Includes bibliographical references. Isatou Ceesay finds a way to recycle discarded plastic bags that have accumulated in dirty heaps in her Gambian village.

From the publisher:
The inspiring true story of how one African woman began a movement to recycle the plastic bags that were polluting her community. 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.

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