{"id":662,"date":"2012-03-21T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenwithtiffany.com.php5-1.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2021-12-07T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:54:51","slug":"why-should-i-use-reusable-water-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c3social.co\/GWT\/why-should-i-use-reusable-water-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Use Reusable Water Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the time since I did my video on reusable water bottles<\/a>, new, safe and innovative products have been coming out all the time. Some things that don\u2019t change are the reasons not to use single use PET plastic water bottles. (Abbreviated as PET, polyethylene terephthalate is a thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family. It is used in synthetic fibers, beverage, food, and other liquid containers. )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Three million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year.
2. More than 80% of all water bottles are not recycled and end up in landfills.
3. Plastic is made from petroleum, aka oil, which is not a renewable.
4. The most recent alarm is the talk of a polycarbonate known as bisphenol A or BPA
There is quite a lot of evidence suggesting that BPA is a toxin. Now we have \u201cBPA-free.\u201d So tell me, what did they replace bisphenol A with? It depends on the product and the company. It could be a \u201cco polyester\u201d plastic with the trade name Tritan. An oleoresinous c-enamel lining, a PET film lamination. \u201cBPA-free\u201d has been accepted as safe, but let\u2019s not be so sure. Whatever the substitute is, there are many chemicals in all sorts of plastic that act just like BPA. Just like in my video when I talk about the aluminum bottle lining and that what it is made of has not been identified, neither has Tritan. Although most single use plastic water bottles do not contain BPA, they do however leach DEHA, another probable carcinogen. And how about how bad the water can taste sometimes? I for sure can tell if that plastic water bottle has been through different temperatures. It has that plastic-y (is that a word?) taste. Does this all sound like too much? I\u2019ll simplify\u2026plastic bad\u2026plastic alternatives\u2026good \uf04a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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