Microplastics in Your Bedding? Why Merino Wool and Alpaca Quilts Are the Natural Choice

Your Bedding May Be Plastic. Ours Isn't.

Every night, your bedding is in contact with your skin for eight hours. If it's synthetic, it's shedding microplastics — into the air you breathe, and the environment. 

Polyester bedding is affordable, widely available, and an easy choice — but it's actually plastic, derived from petroleum and engineered to feel soft. Every wash cycle releases hundreds of thousands of microplastics into wastewater. Most treatment plants can't filter them out. The microplastics flow into rivers, coastal waters, and eventually the ocean — and have now been found in marine species from zooplankton to whales, and increasingly in human tissue.

Here in Australia, a 2025 modelling study found that synthetic bedlinen was among the top three product categories responsible for microplastic fibre emissions — accounting for a significant share of the 30.9 kilotonnes released between 1988 and 2023.

What happens to a Kelly & Windsor quilt?

Completely the opposite. Our alpaca and merino wool quilts are made from natural protein fibres — the same basic structure as human hair. They biodegrade naturally at end of life, returning nutrients to the soil. No microfibres into your wash water. No synthetic particles into the air of your bedroom.

They simply return to nature.

Wool and alpaca breathe, regulate temperature, and wick moisture in ways polyester simply can't replicate. They're warmer when you need warmth and cooler when you don't. And they're made to last — backed by our five-year guarantee.

Merino from Kangaroo Island. Alpaca from Australian farms.

Our merino wool is sourced from Kangaroo Island, South Australia — a region with a farming heritage stretching back to 1836 and recognised for producing some of the world's finest fleece. The island's isolation has preserved both the purity of its environment and the quality of its wool.

Our alpaca is sourced from Australian farms and offers its own remarkable properties: naturally hypoallergenic, exceptionally light, and around 25% warmer than an equivalent wool product — meaning a lighter fill weight can achieve the same warmth, reducing the amount of fibre needed altogether.

Both fibres are 100% natural and renewable. Merino sheep are shorn annually. Alpacas are too. No animal is harmed, no petrochemical plant is required, and no synthetic process is involved.Sleeping well and treading lightly aren't trade-offs. When you choose natural fibre bedding, made with care for 25 years right here in Australia, they go hand in hand.

Make the switch to natural fibre today — pure, sustainable, and made to last. Shop the range below.

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