SuitabookOne Plastic Bag
Miranda Paul
- Reading
- Read it as a true-life environmental and community story. Pause to locate the women’s practical choices, then explore the glossary or timeline; leave space to check what the book shows about longer-term results.
- Themes
- Community environmental action: Isatou Ceesay and four other women respond to plastic rubbish by making recycled plastic purses. The project is presented as a creative and persistent response to an environmental problem.
- Persistence amid ridicule: The women continue their project despite limited resources and ridicule. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Economic empowerment through making: The recycled-purse project is described as eventually leading to economic empowerment. The book presents this favourably.
- Worth knowing
- A child may benefit from pausing to distinguish the problem itself from the women’s determined response, without assuming that every difficulty is resolved.