Find Your Voice: How Plastic Bags Changed a Community!

Join the Ecology Action Center in reading One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul. The book shares the story of five women who, despite ridicule and a lack of resources, creatively deal with their village’s plastic trash problem by giving local women economic empowerment through their recycled plastic purse project. This picture book tells the inspirational true story of how one person’s voice and actions really can make a difference in our world.

Learn about recycling efforts in our own local community and about how to properly dispose of plastic bags.

Following the story, participants will learn to make bracelets out of plastic bags!