[BD] Still using your old nalgene... perhaps time to change f or a new model...

[James Melzack]

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the belief that all
hard plastics (eg Nalgene bottles) contain this, however soft plastics (such
a 'squashible' evian/sprite bottles) do not.

...now there's a reason to re-use disposable plastic bottles.

2008/5/13 Buckling, Ewen <Ewen.Buckling at informed-direct.com>:

> FYI this is an issue for most plastic bottles IF they get damaged. So if
> you
> think you are doing the right thing by reusing a water bottle from a
> supermarket you may need to think again. The second link sums it up
> nicely:
> "avoid water bottles made out of polycarbonate"
>
> Ewen
> finally managed to link his PhD to frisbee, whoop!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: phillip.lowman at marsh.com [mailto:phillip.lowman at marsh.com]
> Sent: 13 May 2008 13:37
> To: britdisc at ranulf.net
> Subject: [BD] Still using your old nalgene... perhaps time to change for a
> new model...
>
> See the articles below, one of the GB juniors mentioned it in passing,
> looked it up and boom there it is...
>
> http://awearnessblog.com/2008/04/chemicals-in-nalgene-bottles-s.php
>
>
> http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/oncompounds/bisphenola/2003/2003-0
> 413-nalgenebpa.htm<http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/oncompounds/bisphenola/2003/2003-0413-nalgenebpa.htm>
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