ACARA: Classroom Ideas: Years F-2, Exploring patterns and data with breadtags and plastic lids

The humble breadtag is all around us, unrecognised and unnoticed. They are tiny bits of single-use plastic, that seem insignificant. But they add up, says artist Shani Nottingham, who is gathering them to turn them into art. “Basically the aim is to raise awareness of single use plastics, waste and mindless consumption of plastic,” the…

Jacqui Kidman & Lisa Whiston This week we share an interview with Shani Nottingham, the founder of The Breadtag Project. Shani took a simple everyday item and decided to make art with it. But in a bid to discover more, she found opportunities to do better in education, awareness building, campaigning, activism and closing the…

Shani Nottingham plans to change the world – one bread tag at a time. The collector, teacher, artist, blogger and influencer from the central west NSW town of Cowra is, above everything else, an environmentalist. For her, collecting and the environment go together, mainly, she says, because they have to. Four years ago, after suffering…

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Uppercase Magazine Issue 6 2021