One Plastic Bag
Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
Recycling (waste, etc.), juvenile literature
Africa, juvenile literature
Recycling (Waste)
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Pollution
Juvenile literature
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, br…
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