About Orpie

Orpie™ is a small, independent, female-led bag company based in London.

Driven by a love of great design and a desire to impact the heaps of single-use plastic floating in the ocean, Orpie™ was founded with one mission: to gobble up as much single-use plastic as possible. And turn it into stylish, functional and long-lasting bags.

Plastic bottles are collected by hand from within 30 miles of coastlines without a formal waste or recycling system. Community collection is followed by OceanCycle bottle certification to ensure that the plastic is Ethically Sourced. It must be post-consumer waste from the country of origin and collected in an ethical manner ensuring no harmful child labour and fair wages to collectors.

Once certified, these pesky bottles are chopped, chipped and spun into fibre, which we weave into ripstop polyester to make our kick-ass Orpie™ bags. Ripstop is a weaving method that stops the fabric from ripping. We know, it's great.

But that's not all, we donate to the fantastic Big Blue Ocean Cleanup so they can keep busy cleaning up our oceans.

"As a parent, I'm always carrying STUFF! A soggy swimsuit, a bit of old twig or a cobbled-together costume for the school play (when was that scheduled!), so bags are a big part of my life. When plastic pollution started dominating my social feed, I wanted to help do something about it, and the idea for Orpie™ was born.

We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we take gobbling up used plastic very seriously. We wanted to impact plastics under the immediate threat of entering the ocean (or food, our bodies… yuck!). It's taken us a while to find a fabric that does just that, but it was worth the wait. 

Sam Johnson, Founder