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

from ebrossette

Paul's story about Isatou Ceesay focuses on environmental activism, and how a group of women begin a recycling program for plastic bags in the Gambia. It also introduces the concept of what is biodegradable and what it not. I liked the amount of descriptive words used in the story. The book could...

from Sullywriter

An inspiring true story of a Gambian woman who tackled the problem of plastic trash in her community by organizing women to recycle plastic bags into woven purses.

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Author Miranda Paul and illustrator Elizabeth Zunon tell the story of Isatou Ceesay in this poignant and inspiring picture-book biography, chronicling how the Gambian woman came up with a solution to the mounds of plastic trash strangling her small village. Although she had noticed the growing pr...

from nbmars

This true story is about Isatou Ceesay of Gambia, in West Africa, who found a way to recycle all the discarded plastic bags that were accumulating in ugly heaps along the roads. Water collected in them and attracted mosquitoes. Goats were eating the bags and dying. Isatou came up with the idea of...

from melodyreads

empowerment; recycling