I’m sure a lot of you have one of those metal water bottles. They’re like canteens for hippie commandos. I have one too.
Most people buy them not because they’re trendy, but because they’re supposed to be toxin free, unlike typical plastic bottles.
Turns out, SIGG brand canteens have BPA in their inner liners. So the CEO of SIGG says he’s sorry.
It is a big screw up, but being contrite and admitting your mistake is an endearing move. CEO of SIGG Switzerland Steve Wasik said:
“I have learned much over the past two weeks. I learned that many of you purchased Sigg bottles – not just because they were free from leaching and safe – but because you believed that Siggs contained no BPA.
“I learned that, although Sigg never marketed the former liner as ‘BPA Free’ we should have done a better job of both clearly communicating about our liner as well as policing others who may have misunderstood the Sigg message.”
Truth be told, and not to let SIGG off the hook, he does make a point. If they never said their products are BPA-free and people just assumed they were. It is an example of consumer stupidity.
But these are challenges businesses face—i.e. people can be dumb-dumbs—so you have to do research and stops problem before something like this happens.
Via Food Production Daily and The Huffington Post.
Image credit: SIGG.
Plastic bottles are bad news. Sure, the water inside might be from a “natural spring” but the bottle itself is risky business.
You can find a lot of nasty stuff in plastics used to package our foods, such as water bottles. The most notorious is BPA - short for Bisphenol A...
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It’s hard to imagine that there’s even more reasons to steer clear of plastic water bottles…but surprise: there is!
This time the focus is polycarbonate plastic water bottles, which are popular reusable canteens like the one pictured here.
A recent Harvard School of Public Health Study shows that drinking from polycarbonate plastic...
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Bisphenol A, or BPA, has gained a nasty reputation for running rampant in food packaging, especially plastic bottles. BPA may interfere with hormones.
So now that BPA has been widely vilified in people’s minds, the EPA plans to overhaul the way chemicals are evaluated in the United States.
The EPA proposed sweeping...
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That’s what comes to mind when I think Buddhism, a jolly fat guy. Not recycling! But apparently Buddhists are WAY into recycling.
Thai monks from Sisaket, 400 miles northeast of Bangkok, constructed an entire TEMPLE out of green and brown beer bottles. 1 MILLION to be exact!
Check it out, via Greenupgrader:
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Here's some British innovation. That guy made a SHED out of empty lemonade, cola and ginger beer bottles; via TreeHugger.
Junk, a raft made out GARBAGE and plastic bottles recently completed a 2,600 mile trip from California to Hawaii; from KGMB News.
Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean floats a TEXAS-SIZED island of...
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