Comments on: Plastic Water Bottles/Nalgene – 5 Plastic Safety Tips

By: Sean Adams

Sean Adams — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:54:08 +0000

Plastic is used in so many applications it boggles the mind but IMHO it is becasue it is so good at doing what it was made for. Containg food/water keeping it safe from contaminates preventing the formation of harmful bacteria. As long as I am not getting sick from food poisioning I feel relatively safe. More can be said of a lack of exercize and a sedimentary lifestyle causing most cancer to occur.
Weight is a great concern too and as we increase the weight of containment vessels from plastic to glass we increase the load on the transport vehicle and persons subjected to handling these products. More can be said about air pollutants that can result if we insisted our products return to glass or metal containment this would mean we need stronger shelving ,shoping carts, boxes, mistakes at shoping locations would result in more breakage inturn inviting varmin into those stores and into our homes. We would consume more fuel with trucks and cars As every person ages they can attest to the benefits of having ever lighter loads to tote when bringing in the groceries.Even the metal containers have a plastic lining making them safer preventing botulism. I would say that botulism is by far a greater health threat than the potential leaching of plastic. You may feel safer switching from one container to another but each time food is handled the potential for cross contamination arises temperature variations can result in shorter shelf life the numbers are staggering as to how many are ill becasue of improper handling of food.

By: Ginny

Ginny — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:07:49 +0000

All great information, thank you! I spend so much time researching things online, it is a blessing to have a resource like your site for help getting to the bottom of all these issues. Now I need to research water filters. I know that bottles water is bad, and that even the home filters you can buy at the grocery store can often leave behind lots of icky stuff from our water supply (fertilizers, pesticides, drugs, even birth control, ick!). I drink a TON of water so this issue has been worrying me a lot lately. I have been reading a lot about water ionizers/alkalizers (http://www.ionizersreviewed.com/index.php) that you can use at home, but they are very expensive so I need to do lots more research to know if it's worth it/ effective. Any info. from anyone who's researched this would be greatly appreciated!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:10:14 +0000

Oh gosh, I am so sorry Kathy, but guess what, if you had hit your “back” button, it would have still been there! It always works for me anyway, I’m so sorry, that is sooooooooooo frustrating! I have a love/hate relationship with all things related to computers.

Unfortunately, I can’t control how that comment form looks, it’s standard for Wordpress…

If you feel the urge to type it in again (or at least a shortened version), we’d love to read what you have to say.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:20:41 +0000

I just spent 40 minutes typing a very informative piece about plastic for all of you to benefit from and this site deleted it because I forgot to type my email address. Very poor. Waste of my time and now you don’t get the information I had for you. There should be an asterisk stating your email address is required.

By: Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship

Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:10:54 +0000

Passionate Homemaking had something about silicone being safe... My mnemonic for remembering safe plastics: 2-4-5, staying alive. The numbers also make a triangle on a phone keypad. (#1 is debatable and for one-time use only, so I hear!). Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship’s last blog post..Mental Mission: What Kind of Fat are you Eating?

By: Local Nourishment

Local Nourishment — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:30:19 +0000

You might want to reconsider putting anything plastic in the dishwasher. Between the heat (even with the drying heat off the water gets hotter than sink hot) and the chemicals in the detergent, your bottles are breaking down and becoming leach machines. Local Nourishment’s last blog post..May 2009 Summary

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:23:31 +0000

Hi Ryan, I agree with your comment about glass, but the bottle you linked to has such a small opening that I’d be worried about being able to get it clean…? I like wide-mouth bottles personally and we use ball jars to drink from sometimes.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:42:17 +0000

Hey, I have not read through all the comments, but the safest vessel for food and drinking, would be glass. It is non reactive and does not leach like all the plastics we have heard of. Anyway, pyrex sells a great food storage container that I use, and my website sells a great reusable glass water bottle. Check us out at http://livinglavidaverde.net/store.aspx . If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us through the contact us option. Good post by they way!!!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:56:58 +0000

Sorry, Julie, I don’t know, but if anyone else does, I’d also love to hear about it! Have you Googled it?

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:48:42 +0000

Kelly,
Do you know any thing about the safety of silicone kitchen cookware? I was thinking about purchasing a silicone vegetable steamer (not for microwave but to use in a stainless steal pot on the stove) but would like to know about its safety.