One Plastic Bag
Author(s): Miranda Paul
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Lerner Publishing Group
- : Lerner Publishing Group
- : 0.408233
- : 01 January 2015
- : 27.00 cmmm X 22.60 cmmm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Miranda Paul
- : Hardback
- : 1502
- : Elizabeth Zunon
- : English
- : 363.72880966
- : 32
- : YXL
- : illustrations