Join Isatou Ceesay and be inspired to become a changemaker in your own right.

It highlights the urgent need to address the plastic pollution crisis and encourages readers to take action to make a difference in their own communities.

This powerful and moving book showcases the impact of one person's determination and ingenuity in creating positive change. Through this movement, she educated women in The Gambia to recycle plastic waste into sellable products that earned them income. 1 She initiated a recycling movement called One Plastic Bag in the Gambia. Her efforts not only helped to clean up the environment, but also provided income for women in her community who had been struggling to make ends meet. Isatou Ceesay (born 1972) is a Gambian activist and social entrepreneur, popularly referred to as the Queen of Recycling. Isatou Ceesay decided to take action, and she began to collect the plastic bags and recycle them into something new. The bags also strangled gardens, killed livestock, and polluted the environment. The stagnant water in the bags provided a breeding ground for mosquitoes and diseases, while the burning of bags left behind a foul smell. However, when these bags broke or were no longer needed, they were carelessly discarded, leading to an unsightly accumulation of plastic waste alongside roads. Join Isatou Ceesay and be inspired to become a changemaker in your own right.Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.įor years, plastic bags were a cheap and convenient option for carrying goods in Njau, Gambia.

Her efforts not only helped to clean up the environment, but also provided income for women in her community who had been struggling to make ends meet.

Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.įor years, plastic bags were a cheap and convenient option for carrying goods in Njau, Gambia. One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Cybils New York Public Librarys.

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