One plastic bag : Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia

Title
One plastic bag : Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia

Personal Author EPSB
Miranda, Paul

Summary
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.

Year Published
2015

Physical Description
1 volume (unpagged) : illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm

Program Information
Accelerated Reader:bLG 2.9 0.5 170587

Personal Subject
Ceesay, Isatou.

Subject
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Africa, West.
 
Plastic bags -- Africa, West..
 
Plastic bag craft -- Africa, West.
 
Pollution -- Africa, West.
 
Wolof (African people).

Added Author
Zunon, Elizabeth,

Summary
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.

ISBN
9781467716086

Publisher
Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, 2015.


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