Podcast: Sustainable You, The Humble Little Breadtag

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…

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…

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When Shani Nottingham noticed how much bread packaging her family was throwing out, she decided to put them to use. When Australian visual artist and teacher Shani Nottingham noticed how much bread packaging her family was throwing out, she decided to put them to use in her work, to create awareness of the environment and…