Plastic Free July 2025

Plastic Free July is a global movement encouraging millions of people to be part of the solution to plastic pollution, focusing on choosing to refuse single use plastics. 

Every decision we make at Wallace Cotton is considered for its sustainable outcome. We’re always looking for ways to be more planet friendly, including reducing and removing plastics from our business. We make careful choices including the suppliers we use, the fabrics we make our collections from and our packaging. Read on to learn more about the removal of plastics from our business, our tips for small swaps in your home and our favourite sustainable bed linen.

Plastic free packaging

Sustainability is important to us, so we’ve worked hard from the very beginning to remove plastic packaging from our business, including plastic shopping bags, plastic product packaging and plastic courier bags. Since 2006, our customers have received their purchases in one of our reusable cotton laundry bags featuring a beautiful Wallace Cotton print. These have become collector’s items over the years. All our sheets, pillowcases, duvet covers, duvet inners, pillows and bedding essentials are presented in reusable fabric packaging and our clothing and sleepwear collections are tied neatly with a cotton ribbon. When sending online orders to our customers, we use courier bags made from 90% recycled plastic which can be recycled again.

DISCOVER NEW ARRIVALS

Take the challenge

Assess everyday tasks to see where small swaps can be made to reduce plastic use in your daily life. Every little bit helps.

Easy small swaps:
Replace plastic kitchen storage containers with glass, stainless steel or bamboo.
Replace plastic drink bottles with glass or stainless steel drink bottles.
Replace synthetic dish cloths with washable and reusable knitted cotton cloths.
Replace plastic food wrap with fabric dish covers.
Swap plastic laundry pegs for stainless steel pegs.
Purchasing a stainless steel cutlery set to have with you for eating on the run.
Choose clothing and bedding made from natural fabrics to help reduce micro-plastics entering our waterways and food chain.

Other tips for living more sustainably:
Swap paper napkins for washable and reusable fabric napkins.
Purchase quality items for your home that are made to last to reduce repeat purchases and landfill.
Wash your laundry in cold water and line dry when possible. If you need to use the dryer, add our pure wool dryer balls which significantly reduce drying time, saving energy.

Conscious cotton

For enduring and sustainable style, our Purity collection of duvet cover sets, sheets and pillowcases are crafted from organic cotton, which is gentle on your skin and on the planet. Organic cotton is produced free from chemicals and genetic modification, which minimises the manufacturing impact on the environment, the natural eco systems and the people who work with cotton. We carefully source fabric suppliers whose ethical and environmental values align with our own to produce a beautiful, sustainable and affordable organic cotton collection for our customers.