Glass Water Bottle with Flip Cap & Silicone Sleeve, 22 oz, by Lifefactory. Available on Amazon.com.
Camelbak Eddy Glass .7-Liter Water Bottle. Available on Amazon.com.
A recent Mother Jones article, “The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics,” discussed new research that shows the chemicals used to replace BPA in plastic bottles may be equally as harmful.
“CertiChem and its founder, George Bittner, who is also a professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas-Austin, had recently coauthored a paper in the NIH journal Environmental Health Perspectives. It reported that “almost all” commercially available plastics that were tested leached synthetic estrogens—even when they weren’t exposed to conditions known to unlock potentially harmful chemicals, such as the heat of a microwave, the steam of a dishwasher, or the sun’s ultraviolet rays. According to Bittner’s research, some BPA-free products actually released synthetic estrogens that were more potent than BPA.”
Yikes! We all know that there are concerns about the affects of synthetic estrogens, and while it’s hard to know if every study is accurate, does it really hurt to use glass instead of plastic? Of course not.
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