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What are the Benefits of Wholesale Tote Bags?
What are the Benefits of Wholesale Tote Bags?
When buying wholesale bags for your business or event, you want to find something that reflects your company’s values and something that adds value to your business. Tote bags are becoming more and more popular for many reasons, including their ability...
A guide to eco bag fabrics
A guide to eco bag fabrics
When it comes to choosing a fabric type for your printed bags from Cotton Bag Co, you really are spoilt for choice. Don’t be fooled by the name- we offer a variety of different materials and bag options in addition...
What is a Tote Bag?
What is a Tote Bag?
Tote bags are completely in fashion right now, people are switching to their eco-friendly and environmentally-friendly totes. Not only because they want to make a difference, but they also look so good too. So what is a tote bag, and what...
Cotton Bag Care Guide
Cotton Bag Care Guide
Cotton is popular worldwide due to its soft and breathable properties. It is extremely versatile and is used in a vast variety of products. Cottons bags are a great replacement to use in place of plastic shopping bags, they’re also...
Go Green: Our Eco-Friendly and Reusable Bags
Go Green: Our Eco-Friendly and Reusable Bags
The average plastic bag gets used for twelve minutes before it gets thrown away. Our bags can be used over and over again and if cared for correctly, they may even last you a lifetime.     Who can use...
Printed festival bags
Printed festival bags
For the past 5 years we have supplied the Guardian with printed bags for Glastonbury Festival. These brightly coloured bags are given out when attendees purchase the special festival editions of the Guardian newspaper, which are only available to buy from...
Our guide to printed cotton bags
Cotton is a perfect material for making into printed bags, as it is lightweight but durable and the fine weave means that even intricate and detailed designs look great when printed onto it. We also love cotton because it is...
Our guide to reusable polypropylene bags
Our guide to reusable polypropylene bags
As well as our range of cotton and canvas bags, we also offer woven and non woven PP bags which are a great environmental choice and perfect for printing. You have likely come across these bags before but might not...
75% of us bring our own bags when shopping
Our sister site Paper Bag Co recently ran a survey that asked 500 people from around the UK, ‘When you go shopping, do you take shopping bags with you?’. The respondents were given four possible answers to choose from: ‘Yes, every time’, ‘Occasionally,...
How To Clean Reusable Bags
So you’ve made the switch to fabric eco bags from plastic? Great! Reusable bags are an eco-friendly alternative to plastic bags for carrying shopping home from the supermarket, but the fact that these bags are used again and again means...
Glastonbury Festival Bags
Glastonbury Festival Bags
The Guardian have used us as a trusted supplier for over five years, providing them with printed bags for Glastonbury Festival. These colourful bags are handed out with special Festival editions of the Guardian newspaper each day on the festival...
Using Fabric Eco Bags in the Kitchen
The multitude of tasks that you can use fabric eco bags for is almost endless. We’ve put together a list of four of our favourite ways to use them in the kitchen. Shopping The most obvious use for reusable bags...
Hindu Pilgrimage Made Eco-Friendly with Cotton Bags
India has been becoming more and more conscious of the impact which humans are having on the environment, and has been particularly active against plastic bags. The production of plastic bags below a certain thickness has already been banned to...
The Natural Advantages of Jute
Jute is a long vegetable fibre which can be spun into strong threads. It isn’t as widely-known in the West as it is in India, but jute has been used for hundreds of years to make hessian and burlap, and...
Government Finally Fight Back Against Single-Use Plastic Bags
At Cotton Bag Co, we’re proud to be part of the solution when it comes to eliminating plastic bags. That’s why we’re thrilled to let you know that the government have just announced a Single Use Carrier Bags Charges Order. Created...
A Quick Guide to Our Non-Woven Polypropylene Bags
Cotton bags are easy enough to understand – everyone knows that cotton is a natural material which doesn’t harm the planet. However, with so many different types of synthetic material around, it can be difficult to tell which ones are...
Bamboo bags, from only 44p each!
Bamboo bags, from only 44p each!
Is your company looking for a bargain? Then look no further than our superb collection of wholesale bamboo bags. These stylish, long-lasting bags not only look fantastic slung over your customers’ shoulders but they’re also known for their eco-friendly characteristics....
131 uses for a cotton bag (Part 1)
Despite their eco-friendly benefits, the cotton bags we love so much do carry around with them more of a carbon footprint than plastic bags. To fully offset the amount of carbon used in producing and transporting it to the shop...
Cotton Bag Co design cotton bags for Unicef
Cotton Bag Co recently became involved in producing a number of natural cotton bags for the charity UNICEF. UNICEF work with communities, families and governments to help promote and protect the rights of children in over 190 countries worldwide. These bags...

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Rawlings Group & Cotton Bag Co

In September 2023 Cotton Bag Co, along with parent company Paper Bag Co, was acquired by Rawlings Group.

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Global Organic Textiles Standard Certification

Read about our commitment to the Global Organic Textiles Standard and download our certification

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Our very own Guiness World Record!

See how we worked with the help of a local school and businesses to create the worlds largest jute bag

Our World Record Page