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

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

✍ Scribed by Paul, Miranda

Publisher
Millbrook Press;Findaway World
Year
2015;2020
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1094258733

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✦ Synopsis

"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. ... Something had to change. Isatou Ceesay was that change. She found a way to recycle the bags and transform her community"--Jacket.

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