One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- ISBN-10
- 1467716081
- ISBN-13
- 9781467716086
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Millbrook Picture Books
- Author
- Miranda Paul
Description
Tells the story of a Gambian woman who came up with a way to recycle the plastic bags that had littered the landscape in her nation, an act that saved the environment and transformed her community.
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- 2020-01-01
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