PHOTO: “Plastic doesn’t grow on trees” – the overall winner of 2022 Waste2Art competition.
Did you know that only four per cent of Australians reuse plastic shopping bags and that supermarket bags are used only 18 minutes on average before being thrown away?
It only takes a creative eye to turn waste like this into art; scrap metal horses, rabbits made from packing foam and a plastic bottle train are just a few of the imaginative examples previously received in the annual Waste to Art prize.
Initiated by NetWaste who has a reach across almost 40 per cent per cent of the state, including every Shire Council in the Western Plains region, this year’s theme is textiles and fast fashion. So, it’s time to put on your thinking cap and look at rubbish from a totally different perspective…