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One Plastic Bag

Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia

by Miranda Paul

2015 34 pages eng ★ 4.7 (3 ratings)

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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