The Morning Show on 7: Meet Aussie mum, artist and teacher Shani Nottingham recycling millions of plastic bread tags into works of art

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 the importance of recycling.

She also reached out to friends and family to send their used bread clips to her and as her project developed she has been inundated with bread tags sent to her from all over the world.

Watch the video now to see this amazing recycled bread tag art.

Shani joined The Morning Show from her home in Cowra and recalled how the project began with her collecting discarded bread clips and putting them into jars.

“I’m an artist and I love colour, I started looking at these colours and thinking ‘these are actually quite pretty, could I do something creative with those?’

“And I wondered what other colours there are. So I did that thing where you go down that Google rabbit-hole of research and I started to read about how bad they were for the environment … very hard to recycle.

“I thought that’s interesting, but not so great, I come from a family of environmentalists and people who care about the environment.

“When you’re lying in bed or you’re driving and you have those moments where ideas merge together and I thought, hold on a second I could use my art to draw attention to how bad these single-use plastics are,” Shani said.