Wonderpants - how we care

At WPHQ, we want our business to reflect our personal values, helping to create a world we are pleased to be a part of, and want to be living in. A world we cherish and appreciate for all it gives us.

In the production of Wonderpants, we care about leaving the smallest footprint possible - so we can continue to make wonderpants for many years to come, and we can all feel easy about wearing and enjoying them, knowing nature has been considered.

We want our business to have 100% onshore Australian production, with local processes and fabrics.  It was vital for us to find the right fabric for Wonderpants. This took some time, but finally we found it.

We make our underwear range from organically grown, Australian knitted cotton provided by ABMT and TFS. Both companies source the cotton from Fairtrade accredited, GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) Certified, organic farms in India, bring the cotton to Australia and knit it for us in their factories in Victoria and Queensland. Not only do they provide exemplary service and product, their water management is ecologically considered, they use dyes that are easy on nature, and genuinely care about making an ecological and sustainable difference in the generally toxic world of textiles.

We are stoked to be able to partner with ABMT and TFS for our Wonderpants range.

Closer to home, with the production of the range, we take care.

We take care to minimise the power we use to run our workroom. The complex our workroom is located at is transitioning to 100% solar power.

We take care to reduce our workroom waste - keeping it to a minimum, recycling all we can.

We take care of our level of fabric waste - currently supplying a local print collective with offcuts to use as cleaning rag. A fashion student in Melbourne takes different sized off-cuts and is making clothing from them. A primary school teacher takes some of our cardboard tubes and used thread cones for art projects at their school. We have created a range of garden ties from one layer of off-cut. We are developing a range of cushions and bolsters made from recycled and up cycled fabrics, using our offcuts as the stuffing. They’re looking great! Any offcuts that can’t be used are sent to Upparel to be used in their fabric recycling scheme.

We take care with our printing - all our printing is done by the fabulous PrintTogether team. They use recycled paper, vegetable based inks and clean green printing processes.  They're ace!  You can find them here www.printtogether.com.au

We take care with our wrapping - we use recycled paper wrapping, recycled paper post satchels and compostable post satchels, no plastics in our packaging, and paper tape.  www.betterpackaging.com

And we don’t just care about environmental sustainability… social sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. Wonderpants is owned and staffed by local mums who will always prioritise their families. We are committed to keeping production of Wonderpants on site and paying above award wage.

We pay the rent monthly to www.nalderun.net.au on Dja Dja Wurrung country.

We make a monthly donation to Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au

We do our best to take care of the earth, ourselves, and of you.