In 2001, over three hundred school children from West Africa, collected plastic bags that had been thrown on the ground in and around the village an effort to create a recycling program. The women would clean the bags, cut them into strips, and weave them into coin purses to sell. The project was part of Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots program, and helped to improve the natural environment, animal health (animals eat the bags on the ground, especially cattle), and human health through improved sanitation and added income through the selling of the purses that would be made from the recycled bags. I continue, almost 15 years later to work with both children and adults in Africa on improved human and environmental health as a PhD student at Cornell studying Communication.