Onya Side Bags
$29.95 AUD
Our side/messenger bags are practical to use and comfortable to wear. Easily stuffed away in to its internal pouch when not in use, this bag can be used in your daily commute or occasional travels.
- Made from up to 11x Recycled Plastic Drink Bottles
- Features internal, front zipped and side mesh pockets
- Large internal capacity & adjustable strap
- Stuffs Down Into A Small Carry Pouch
- 100% Recyclable
Description
What makes our Side Bag so good?
Ethically made from recycled plastic drink bottles, this durable Side Bag makes a perfect day bag and stuffs down into a fist-sized carry pouch so you can take it with you anywhere, anytime.
The fully adjustable strap can be worn either over the shoulder or for a more comfortable experience, across the body.
This bag is perfect to be used as a lightweight day bag and can fit a 13 inch lap top plus chargers and accessories easily and can hold weights up to 4kg (8.8lb).
The two mesh side pockets can be used to stow drink bottles, spare cords/chargers, pens or even snacks for easy access on the go.
Phones can be stored securely in one of the two internal pockets with access for wired headphones through the headphone port in the top of the bag.
With a large zippered external pocket, two internal pockets, large internal storage cavity with a 13cm (5.1 inches) double lined gusset, as well as the two mesh side panels, our Side Bag has ample storage options and allows you to easily access your items.
We believe that with all these additional new features, we have taken the old and much loved version of our Side Bags and made them better, we hope you will love this range refresh as much as we do!
Features:
- Lightweight and super-tough
- Expandable shoulder strap fits across the body
- Large centre compartment
- Double lined side panels for extra strength
- Front pocket with zip closure
- Two internal pockets
- Side mesh pockets
- 40cm across x 35cm high x 12cm gusset (width) / 16in across x 14in high x 5in gusset (width)
- Stuffable carry pouch with carabiner clip included
- Carries up to 4kg / 8.8lb
- Adjustable shoulder strap length from 57cm to 107cm / 22.4in x 42.1in
- 100% recyclable
- Weighs just 130gms / 4.5oz
- Made from up to 11 plastic drink bottles
- 12 month Manufacturers Warranty
A note on our packaging: Our commitment to sustainability extends to our packaging which is made from post-consumer recycled material and printed with water based inks so it is suitable for both recycling or composting. We ship low waste and plastic free, reusing boxes and packing materials where we can or FSC certified shipping envelopes that are 100% recyclable.
Onya is proud to be a B Corporation. Our products are responsibly made in China and are 100% recyclable at the end of their long life cycle.
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26 reviews for Onya Side Bags
Onya Order Processing
We make our best efforts to ensure orders are processed within 2 Business Days of being received by us with the exception of weekends and holidays when orders will be processed on the next working day.
Onya Sustainable Shipping Practices
As a Certified B Corporation, at Onya our commitment to sustainability also extends to our shipping practices. We ship low waste and plastic free, reusing boxes and packing materials where we can or FSC certified shipping envelopes that are 100% recyclable.
Onya Shipping Rates
FREE SHIPPING on all Australian orders over $75.
FLAT RATE SHIPPING rate of $16AUD to United States and Canada.
Australian and International shipping rates will vary depending on the size of your order and the shipping zone/country you live in (excluding United States and Canada).
Apart from the reusable drink bottle and the compostable bin liner ranges, Onya products are light, and shipping is calculated by weight and dimensions via the Australia Post shipping calculator rather than per item. This means that it may cost you the same price to ship one item or 5 items depending on the items chosen.
It’s always good to play around with items in the cart first to see how much postage will be, but we will always endeavour to ship your order in the most compact and cost effective way.
You are able to calculate how much your shipping cost will be by putting all of the items you wish to purchase in your cart and then use the shipping calculator to calculate your shipping for that order.
Australia Post updates their prices periodically so using the shipping calculator in your shopping cart is the easiest and most accurate way to get the latest shipping costs.
Remember, you get FREE SHIPPING on all Australian orders over $75 and for the United States and Canada shipping is a FLAT RATE of $16AUD!
Onya Shipping Time
*COVID-19 DELIVERY UPDATE*
In many shipping zones deliveries may be delayed, but all services are available. For further information on delivery to your region, please visit the Australia Post website directly.
Within Australia
For all shipping within Australia we use Australia Post. Please find below the estimated transit times supplied by Auspost. To check on whether there are any known service delays in your area please check with Auspost directly.
Parcel Post
Standard shipping – including free shipping for orders over $75.
Western Australia – Metro: up to 2 business days; Country: up to 5 business days.
Outside of WA – Metro: up to 3-6 business days depending on lodgement and destination points; Country: please calculate transit time estimate using Kenwick WA 6107 in the ‘From’ window.
Tracking – Track your parcels progress using your unique tracking number.
Express Post
Express Post is the best option to send something to another state the quickest way possible. Items sent from or to the locations outside of the Express Post next business day delivery network will usually take 2 to 3 business days with Express Post. Please calculate transit time estimate using Kenwick WA 6107 in the ‘From’ window.
Western Australia – Next business day delivery to and from Perth CBD and suburbs within postcodes 6000-6214; 6800-6999.
Outside of WA – Next day delivery – Express Post next business day delivery is only available within the Express Post next business day delivery network this service operates between all capital cities (except Darwin and in Perth CBD only) and some major centres and covers 80% of Australian business addresses, private addresses, and Post Office Boxes. Please check if your address falls within the Express Post next business day delivery network.
Tracking – Track your parcels progress using your unique tracking number.
New Zealand
Parcel Post (standard)
Delivery Time estimate 5 business days within metro areas.
Express International
Delivery Time estimate 3 business days within metro areas.
For delivery estimates outside of metro areas please calculate transit time estimate using Kenwick WA 6107 in the ‘From’ window.
Tracking – You can track your parcels progress within Australia and within New Zealand using your unique tracking number.
United States
Parcel Post (standard) – USA Flat Rate Shipping Special $16AUD.
Delivery Time estimate 15 business days within metro areas.
For delivery estimates outside of metro areas please calculate transit time estimate using Kenwick, Western Australia (WA) 6107 in the ‘From’ window.
Tracking – You can track your parcels progress within Australia and within the United States using your unique tracking number.
Canada
Parcel Post (standard) – Canada Flat Rate Shipping Special $16AUD
Delivery Time estimate 15 business days within metro areas
For delivery estimates outside of metro areas please calculate transit time estimate using Kenwick, Western Australia (WA) 6107 in the ‘From’ window.
Tracking – You can track your parcels progress within Australia and within Canada using your unique tracking number.
United Kingdom
If you are in the United Kingdom please switch over to our Onya UK site for direct shipping from UK.
Europe
Due to the EU’s current stance on VAT collection enforcing all businesses shipping to Europe to collect VAT on their behalf, we are currently unable to ship to any European country outside the UK. If you live in Europe, please view our stockist directory to find Onya stockists.
All other countries
Parcel Post (standard)
Delivery Time estimate 4-10+ business days within metro areas depending on your country.
Express International
Delivery Time estimate 2-6 business days within metro areas depending on your country.
For delivery estimates outside of metro areas or to your country please calculate transit time estimate using Kenwick WA 6107 in the ‘From’ window.
Tracking – You can track your parcels progress within Australia using your unique tracking number. We recommend using your national postal services tracking once your parcel has reached your country.
Kathryn K –
Great gym bag, bit narrow at zipper
Hi, the bag itself is well made and great for gym but the top is too narrow and it would be perfect if it was as wide as the bottom.
Alison Q –
Brilliant bag
Lovely useful bag and very stylish
Catherine B –
Lovely eco friendly present for the family
Anne E –
5 Stars
Joy B –
It’s great and light n big! I walked an hour to work with it no problem
Paul –
The bag was bought as a present for Zys 13 birthday it arrived on time and he absolutely loves it as his family are all into recycled goods keep the good work up cheers
Jennifer B –
Very practical
Holds huge amount & easily stuffed into a pocket when not in use. Highly recommended.
Heather P –
Very useful bag
I use the onya backpack and now this side bag – it holds a lot!! Great addition. 👍
L A R –
5 Stars
Karen D –
Great bag for my dog walks!
I have an Onya backpack that I bought ages ago and it’s so useful and practical. I bought this one because it’s easier to grab the dog toys and treats on our walks. Really pleased with it!
Stephen C –
On ya side bag
Great bag,well made and can get loads In it ,have had a few now I love them
Anne H –
Really useful
Would like a pocket where I could put my phone. But love my bag it’s light and easy to use.
Jen L –
Great wee bag –
Really like the idea of it – doesn’t hold its shape unless completely full so looks a bit cheap when only a few items in it. But great size and super light material. 10 stars for customer service and values!
Lexie P –
Great for shopping. Holds heaps.
Jennifer J –
I Use it for work & I love it…
Suzanne B –
For travelling ONYA is the best…so compact and light and can carry a lot
Dianne B –
I love my Onya products, I have quite a few now. It’s great to be able to use things made from plastic bags, and to reduce the amount of plastic going into landfill, and doing my bit for the environment.
Catherine F –
First time customer, and very pleased with my bag. Amazing quality and stylish bag
Brenda K –
The service I received was over and above anything I could have expected. The product is very good. Well designed and good quality material. I couldn’t have asked for more. Well done.
Claire –
My onya side bag has traveled the world & can still fit a pizza box & a bag of potatoes in the grocery shop, would like a new one please update me when avalible.
Gail Hill –
Can not understand why side bags were discontinued I have been using them for years great bags would not replace with a shopper bag as I like my hands free bought lots as presents always appreciated, wish they would reappear also be available in the uk as I need a new one as even though mine are still usable after years of use I need one for (best ) as mine is slightly tatty .
Onya HQ –
Hi Gail,
So glad to hear you have gotten years use out of your Side Bag. To clarify, the bags were not discontinued, just a long redesign process and we thank you for your patience. We should be relaunching them in the next few weeks providing no further delays and hope to have them on the sites no later than mid-January 2020. We are currently waiting for final quality check and as soon as they are approved and received to our warehouse we will be making them available on both our main Australia site (with worldwide shipping) and shortly after on our UK site (with direct UK and European shipping). You can sign up for the wait list by emailing your interest to info.uk@onyalife.com and you will receive first notice of availability.
Jess S –
Adding to the eulogies for the original ‘onya side’ bag – they still seem to be available in the US – http://www.karritreelane.com/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=227. Is this a different Onya, and if not are there plans to bring these back to the UK? The new version pictured above looks different – not as ‘stuffable’, maybe not as strong, and is the strap adjustable? Also not as pretty as the old ones. Hopefully I’m wrong and look forward to trying them – but honestly, the old bag was the perfect product and there is nothing else approaching it anywhere. It actually carries heavy things, has a squareish base, is comfortable, doesn’t slip off your shoulder and packs away into a tiny thing in seconds. I have had the same one for 10 years and have used it most days. Never lost! It’s falling to pieces now (many times resewn), and I just can’t understand why such a perfect thing no longer exists.
Onya HQ –
Hi Jess,
It is wonderful to hear from you!
We think it’s great that you are a big fan of our original Side Bag from when Onya first began, we appreciate the feedback you have given that the Side Bag is the perfect product catering to your needs, when you mentioned you have had your Side Bag for 10 years we were amazed and pleased to hear of it’s long life.
Our goal at ONYA is to offer customers a well thought out, quality alternative to single-use plastic, after many customer requests we decided our Side Bag required a freshen up in it’s design and appearance, whilst we couldn’t agree with you more that it was perfect as it was, with these changes it is still essentially the same Side Bag stuffable into it’s carry pouch, with some feature upgrades that we have included following below.
Bag size 12cm x 40cm x 35cm / 5in x 16in x 14in, slightly larger than the previous version
Expandable shoulder strap fits across the body
Large centre compartment
Double lined side panels for extra strength
Front pocket with zip closure
Two internal pockets
Side mesh pockets
Made from up to 11 plastic drink bottles
Something important we wanted to mention your Side Bag would be made from virgin polyester, and we are now using rPET material or in other words recycled plastic drink bottles as mentioned above, whilst rPET (a fabric made from recycled BPA free single use plastic drink bottles) is a stiffer fabric than the parachute fabric of your Side Bag, it will soften with use, though will never be quite as soft or light as the parachute fabric.
Sounds wild but it is really quite simple: plastic bottles are gathered from recycling plants and are cleaned and sorted. Then they are crushed into small flakes, heated to melting point and extracted to create yarn – which is used to make bags here at Onya!
Creating an eco-friendly product in this way – from an already existing material rather than straight from scratch – saves on energy and resources and also means there is less plastic polluting the natural environment or wasting away in landfill. It is these processes and products that will help us build a more sustainable planet and way of living, rather than simply churning through resources and living beyond our means.
We realised that unless recycled materials are used to make everyday products, then none of us are really recycling, so we thought maybe we can set an example for industry on how these existing resources can be used rather than using virgin materials, our dream is that one day, recycled and repurposed materials will be the first stop for manufacturing globally.
Thanks to this initiative, during 2018 alone we estimate that 9.24 tonnes of single use plastic drink bottles were prevented going to landfill from Onya produce bag production alone, with an estimated 31,136,040 single use plastic produce bags not having to be used. Each Side Bag itself will keep 11 bottles out of landfill and our environment.
The stockist you have provided the link for is located in Western Australia similarly to us, these colour and design Sidebags have not been around for many years and we have to say they are as rare as hens teeth to find online, we would suggest if this design is perfect for you and your needs that you snap up the last of their stock for your stash 🙂
If the demand grows for different designs, patterns and colours of our new Side Bags we would certainly look into producing these for our customers, while welcoming any feedback on the changes and features of the new Side Bag.
We would be more than happy to add your email to our exclusive list so that you are notified as soon as the Side Bags are in stock, if you would like to receive this notification please do let us know.
Thanks for reaching out to us with your very valued feedback Jess, and we hope you continue to enjoy your original Side Bag!
Helen –
Still waiting to replace my awesome side bag that I have had for years!! When r I going to get the new ones in stock?
Onya HQ –
Hi Helen,
We are working towards that and are hoping to have them back by the end of this year at the latest. Thanks much for your support and encouragement, and we know this is not the answer you wanted but we are working on it (as well as many other exciting things to come).
Michael Kerman –
I keep checking to see if sidebags are back. And still no news. I use my sidebag daily…never leave home without one. These are by far the best and most comfortable bags due to their weight, strength and shoulder strap. So much easier to carry anything with weight on shoulder and 2 free hands. There is nothing else like them.
I do hope are for sale again soon.
Patrick B –
A briliant product where can I get it? in thr UK, or Australia
Onya HQ –
Hi Patrick, Thanks for your message and the encouraging words on our Side Bags. Unfortunately the Side Bags are currently unavailable as we are looking to refresh the range hopefully later in 2018, keeping all the great things our customers love about the bags of course! We’d love to hear of any improvements that you or other customers think we should make to them, as well as what is specifically loved about the Side Bags. Thanks again for your support and encouragement, we appreciate it.
Bec –
I have a few of these in black and blue and use them all the time! I use them for shopping as I prefer a cross body bag (feels nicer on my back), but have also used them for; day at the beach (holds so much and so easy to wash the sand off afterwards), sports days (I love that this can hold shoes and drink bottles), bush walking (holds jumpers/coats that are soon discarded when out walking), library trips and pool. I have one in the car, one attached to the pram and one in my handbag! So far mine are 5 (?) Year’s old and look new. Fantastic product!