Nalgene to phase out hard plastic bottles

[sgtiger]

Yeah, I agree, it's awesome that Nalgene is voluntarily pulling them off the shelves.

[KnottedYet]

Can one of you two who work with the stuff please post some links to some real science? (summarized, but not media-hysteric?)

Last study I read put the clear Nalgene bottles at the TOP of the safe bottle list, right under SIGG steel. (BTW, squeezable plastic sports bottles were at the bottom, very bad for you.) That was a couple years ago, and what convinced me to toss my ancient lab Nalgene and jump on the polycarb bandwagon.

Edit to add: i still suspect I get more plastic aromatics from the other stuff in my life than I do from my Nalgene. Plastic sealants on my teeth, plastic bite-splint being ground to bits between my teeth every night, plastics in my clothes, foods packaged in plastic...

ETA: found this stuff http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/technical/bpaInfo.html http://www.bisphenol-a.org/whatsNew/20080205.html

[Jolt]

I'll be interested to see if they have any kind of program for sending the Lexan bottles back to Nalgene--doesn't seem that likely though. Maybe the best thing is to think of other uses for them if they can't be easily recycled. Any ideas? I have a couple of those bottles sitting on the shelf and am thinking of using them to put gorp and the like in for hiking trips. Solids shouldn't really pick up BPA from the plastic like liquids do, I don't think. At least if they're not stored for long periods in the bottles.

[KnottedYet]

Geocaches!
The BpA Nalgene widemouth bottles would make great geocaches! www.geocaching.com

meanwhile, here's Nalgene's website of the various materials they use for the different lines of containers (click on the names on the left). Tells you which have BpA and phlatates and which don't. http://www.nalgenechoice.com/index.html

[Brandi]

We are going to use our's in our garden. When we mix stuff for the plants we will use those bottles for that. I have decided to just not use them. To me it is not worth it. I mean it is bad enough we have to many chemicals already in our life now i have to worry about what I drink my water out of.
My sister in law died at 34 leaving my brother with a 3 year old son to raise on he's own. She died of a type of breast cancer they said was environmental. She had to many chemicals in her body. They tried to fight it and changed the way they lived but it didn't help.
So I am cautious becuase of that.

[Red Rock]

I have a few of these as well, but what are the safe replacements besides the stainless steel?

[Bad JuJu]

I have a few of these as well, but what are the safe replacements besides the stainless steel?

That's my question--what do we use instead? I can't see myself drinking water out of a steel bottle two hours into a ride on a hot Saturday in July. And as far as I know, as someone else noted, the standard squeezable plastic bike bottles are even worse for us--you can even taste the plastic when you use those. Glass doesn't seem practical. My poor head!