Nalgene bottles are to outdoorsy types as Starbucks cups are to yuppies. That is to say, there are certain people who will not go anywhere without their (usually decal-decorated) Nalgene bottle. Unfortunately, it looks like the plastics used in Nalgene containers may leech some dangerous stuff into your water. Also: Nalgene apparently makes products used in animal testing.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Jason
June 2nd, 2004 at 7:52 pm
And it is animal testing–using devices like those made by Nalgene–that points to the danger of leachate from Nalgene bottles!
Yum. That’s some tasty irony right there.
Dr. Dave
June 3rd, 2004 at 7:15 am
I’m skeptical of the Nalgene thing, because even though this product is just showing up in consumer goods… chemists have been using this stuff for YEARS. If it was really so volatile, it would have been screwing up experiments in labs for decades. Somebody would have noticed.
If you read the article, it sounds like a case of somebody washing out a bottle with industrial-strength solvent in a lab… then putting some chemical in there that SPECIFICALLY reacts with the plastic by-product.
If you wash your bottles with Dawn or Cascade, and don’t put anything more reactive in there than water or Gatorade, I expect they are as safe as any plastic bottle.
Dave
(Ok, on second though - I make no promises about the Gatorade!)
leblanc
June 3rd, 2004 at 3:31 pm
you can see my post from March 10 for more links/info
leblanc
June 3rd, 2004 at 3:31 pm
ooops - here it is
http://www.amyleblanc.com/index.php?id=P655