Re: Water bottles or bladders?

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Posted by f_klock on April 29, 2008 at 5:51:24 pm EDT
In reply to Water bottles or bladders? posted by Gr8tAuntyH on April 27, 2008 at 1:34:45 pm EDT

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Being cheap I also tend to recycle water bottles (I'll use liter soda bottles with wide mouths, for example, or a 2liter if water availability is going to be an issue).

Bad deal. When heated by the sun or left in a vehicle, soda bottles leach chemicals into your water that are just as toxic, if not moreso than the BPA in lexan Nalgene-type bottles. Some elements, like antimony, leach into water from old PETE(polyetheleneterephthalate) bottles and have been proven to cause cancer. Others are hormone interupters.

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