Buy a stainless steel water bottle to reduce plastic pollution
By Bard of Ely
Inspired by the Plastiki Expedition
I have been helping publicise David de Rothschild's Plastiki Expedition in which he and his crew are sailing across the Pacific Ocean on a plastic catamaran made entirely from recycled plastic bottles to raise awareness of the need for increased recycling, and the dangers of plastic pollution of the environment.
David's boat will be passing through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, one of five massive oceanic gyres made up of waste plastic. This particular one is said to be twice the size of Texas.
Plastic does not biodegrade and most of the plastic ever made still exists somewhere in the environment. It breaks down only into smaller and smaller particles. Plastic gets eaten by sea creatures and ends up in the food chain with disastrous results.
Plastic contains and absorbs poisons that can then leach out having a very harmful effect on anything which eats them. Some plastic items are swallowed whole by sea birds such as albatrosses that then feed them to their chicks and the baby birds die. Marine turtles mistake plastic bags for jellyfish and eat them and die too.
Anyway, knowing all this, and inspired by the Plastiki campaign I decided to get myself a stainless steel water bottle for future use.
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A stainless steel water bottle
The dangers of BPA
I needed to get a bottle that I could keep on using and would not have any dangers hidden in it, dangers like bisphenol-A.
The chemical bisphenol-A is commonly known as BPA and it is a dangerous toxin. BPA is present in many plastic bottles and forms of packaging but unfortunately over time and exposed to heat it can leach out into food or drink it is holding.
BPA is known to be a serious danger to health because it can lead to heart disease, birth defects and genetic disorders. It is also said to cause aggression in children, obesity and hyperactivity, as well as having a bad effect on male fertility and sexual health.
So the less exposure to it the better, and the less plastic we buy the better!
On Tenerife where I live, most people, and I have been one of them, buy water in plastic bottles and take this out with them to stop them getting dehydrated in the hot climate. I realised that I needed to do something about stopping my use of bottled water as much as possible so I searched online to find a safe water bottle.
Ideally I wanted a stainless steel one because I know this metal is totally harmless. I found the onegreenbottle website and ordered one of their Mudpuppy range. The bottle tops are made from polypropylene, which although it is a plastic, it does not contain any BPA at all.
A Mudpuppy stainless steel bottle is 100% safe and also rather smart looking. Hopefully these stainless steel bottles will become trendy as well as really useful for health and environmental purposes.
There was a problem though, because I ordered my bottle weeks ago but it hadn't arrived. I contacted the seller via Amazon to say so. They told me it had been shipped and all items normally arrived within days.
I was told they would investigate the matter further, and then, just yesterday, I had another email saying it had been received by Correos and giving me a reference number. "Correos" is the name of the postal service here so I wondered if it had gone back to the local post office in Icod de los Vinos because I had been out when the postman or woman had tried to deliver it.
I had to go to the post office about something else so went this morning and asked what had happened to my parcel and quoting the reference number. The person serving me looked on her PC and asked another member of staff, who came to tell me I would be getting it today.
I went home and sure enough within an hour or so it has arrived. I thought it was almost as if this was destined to happen this way just so I could receive my stainless steel bottle on Earth Day.
The synchronicity of it arriving today has inspired me to write this hub all about it, and is part of my contribution to this special day that is all about what we can all do to create a Green future and a safer world.
Copyright © 2010 Steve Andrews. All Rights Reserved.
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Comments
Thank you, Varenya!
Very interesting and a great hub for Earth Week.
Yes, definitely a great Hub for Earth Day! There are a number of great stainless steel bottle brands out there. SIGG is a good one. They have some cool bottle designs and plain ones as well. Cheers!
Thank you for your comments, Marie and Marty!
If we can get over our conditioning and laziness, sure. I've used the same plastic jug for 3 months because the stainless steel bottles and store bought models keep disappearing. But i'm willing to give it another shot. Very good hub Bard
Thank you for posting too, Kowality!
Hey Eli! I was at Whole Food Market today and saw some water bottles like these. I wanted to take a look at them but on my SECOND trip around and through all the isles i forgot about them. That is until now! Good hub and well done! Love how you made a "story" out of it!
Thank you, Ann!
This is a good hub. I smell plastic when drinking water in plastic bottle. Thanks
Thank you as well, Borge!
nice job Bard! I've got my Sigg and it goes with me in the car, work, to the beach. rated up.
I took my new bottle out with me today and it came in very handy on the 5-hour mountain walk I ended up doing!
I like to keep mine cold. Great Hub!
Thank you, BJ!
Great hub, it's funny that I'm reading it today. The local baseball team had a giveaway today and gave the kids plastic eco-friendly water bottles. While in the service years ago I was punished for refusing to dump 55 gallon drums of trash into the ocean. It got thrown in anyway but not by my hands! Good work man, Peace!!
Good for you not dumping that trash! Thanks for posting!
Very good hub and a great idea as you see people everywhere with plastic water bottles. It is so unnecessary. Thanks for increasing our awareness.
Thank you for posting, Pamela!
Very interesting hub - I have my Sigg and avoid plastics completely now. Mind you, after the lastest Sigg mess and the nickel that leaches from stainless steel I find myself wishing for glass! Good post.
I didn't realise some stainless steel has nickel in it too! Something for me to research so thanks for alerting me. I wish we could go back to the days when water was safe to drink out of the tap.
I love this Hub, and can't thank you enough for it!
Thank YOU, Cathi!
Great HUB and I love the story of the people who are sailing with a boat made of empty water bottles.
The thing about drinking water out of plastic (as you explain) is that BPA's also get into our bodies and cause many illnesses, especially if we use the plastic bottles over and over again.
I wish they made a stainless steel bottle with a stainless steel lid as well. I just don't like drinking through any type of plastic.
I actually carry a glass water bottle around with me. Yes it is heavier and more inconvenient but to me, it is worth it. I also add 'Thieves Essential Oil' into my water to purify and clean the water and to help keep me healthier. Because the essential oils like to eat plastic, I cannot put oils in a plastic water bottle. I am sure stainless is OK for them though.
Thank you for this excellent feedback, Jennifer!
Great idea! Stainless steel can get really hot however. Sometimes just getting a very quality long lasting bottle will do the trick. Kor water bottles are great. Iron Man carried one in Iron Man II. If you are really trying to reduce plastic usage, get an advanced water filter from http://advancedwaterfilters.com/. That way you don' have to get bottled or big gallon jugs of water delivered to your door, you can filter it in your home.
Thanks, Mark!
I don't know why we didn't do this decades before. Wonderful Hub - I will have to link back to this on the New Wave of the Future - the water cooler invention that fills bottles - preferably Stainless steel.
Thank you, GmaGoldie!
Varenya 2 years ago
Great hub, as usual, Bard! This is a perfect article for the celebrations of the Earth's day...I hope that men will take care of their generous Mother,I hope that we all will take better care of Her!