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

Author: Miranda Paul Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781467716086 1467716081

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. Similar books: Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai The Right Word by Jen Bryant The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman Wangari's Trees of Peace by Jeanette Winter Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed Nothing Stopped Sophie by Cheryl Bardoe Biblioburro by Jeanette Winter Seeds of Change by Jen Cullerton Johnson Brave Ballerina by Michelle Meadows Betty Doll by Patricia Polacco Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail by Jennifer Thermes Fartiste by Kathleen Krull The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can by Tererai Trent Nadia by Karlin Gray She Made a Monster by Lynn Fulton Monsieur Marceau by Leda Schubert Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin Marvelous Cornelius by Phil Bildner Grandad Mandela by Zindzi Mandela You're On Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt by Judith St. George