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Running Time: 00:14 hrsNarrator: Narrator Book Buddy Digital MediaPublisher:Lerner Publishing Group, 2020Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library ServiceRunning Time: 00:14 hrsNarrator: Narrator Book Buddy Digital MediaPublisher:BC Libraries Cooperative, 2022Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component
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- Author: Paul, MirandaEdition: UnabridgedDate:Created2020Summary:
The inspiring true story of how one African woman began a movement to recycle the plastic bags that were polluting her community. 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.
Subject(s): Plastic bag craft | Plastic bags | Recycling (Waste, etc.) | Wolof (African people) | West Africa | PollutionOriginal Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], Lerner Publishing GroupLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9781541596634, 1541596633
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