Tuesday, April 29, 2008



Last weekend I gathered up all my trusty Nalgene bottles and put them away for good.  There's been a lot of coverage about those bottles and the cancer causing BPA from which they are made.  The news came out several months ago, and I didn't deem it necessary to stop using them, figuring it was just another health scare.  The reports have intensified these last few weeks and seems we've been getting a lot of news agencies trying to use our bottle collection process as a backdrop for their news reports.  Anyway last week I read that Nalgene was pulling all those bottles from the shelves of retailers nationwide.  I took that to be a pretty good sign I shouldn't use them anymore.  They are making new BPA-free bottles so look out for those, of course you can also use the old school milky-white Nalgene bottles or pick up a cool Sigg bottle, like the ones in front here.  

Nalgene and other Lexan bottles have been a staple of our generation, kind of sad to see their demise.

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

I'm still skeptical, but since you have locked up all my beloved nalgenes, I'll take this one.

Anonymous said...

good to know.... i guess i need to look for new ways of drinking of water in the vineyard

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