Re-usuable water bottle/container

Crann na Beatha

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Gummy Panda

Nalgene - Amazon linkage

Camelbak - Amazon linkage

This reminds me that need to buy another water bottle after a family member made their own of my old one.

Devia

Picked one of these up in tk maxx a while back for about 5 euro.

http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Stainless-Steel-Water-Bottle/dp/B008A2Z7SK/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1343488240&sr=8-13

nice_guy80

Elverys are selling nice drinkers at the moment

Hanley

I'm sure you know already, but make sure it's BPA free!

Hanley

...f*ck sake. eBay and PayPal strike again. Just bought one of those camelbak bottles. Think it took 4 total clicks or something. No typing of any info. FML.

ferike1

http://www.kindcosmetics.ie/stainless-steel-bpa-free-water-bottles-klean-kanteen-bottles-in-ireland/stainless-steel-1-2-litre.html

This

I have two! Stainless steel so no aluminium poisining.

busymum1

this camelbak one comes with a carbon filter. Fantastic for getting rid of that tap water taste. You'll never buy bottled water again.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=camelbak+groove&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Acamelbak+groove

Crann na Beatha

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rubadub

Hanley wrote: »

Just bought one of those camelbak bottles. Think it took 4 total clicks or something.

I have done that on amazon a few times! you can easily cancel the order if it was amazon, as you probably know.

brownej

Aquila wrote: »

I should have written I'm looking for a gym specific water bottle,any ideas?

I got the nalgene OTF bottle and I find it really good for the gym. It's about 650ml and it fits in a standard holder on treadmill, bike, x trainer etc. It's supposed to be a one handed pop off lid, and it is with some practice. With the metal clasp in place it won't pop open accidentally in your bag which is an obvious bonus.
It's expensive which is the only issue with it.

Hanley

rubadub wrote: »

I have done that on amazon a few times! you can easily cancel the order if it was amazon, as you probably know.

I'm SO happy I pulled the trigger on it. Great piece of kit.

tricky D

Hanley wrote: »

I'm sure you know already, but make sure it's BPA free!

Bobbble Bottle is Bisphenol-A free and has a filter top. Available from Stock and online. Not sure if it's gym-specific but a great product nevertheless.

Hanley

tricky D wrote: »

Bobbble Bottle is Bisphenol-A free and has a filter top. Available from Stock and online. Not sure if it's gym-specific but a great product nevertheless.

Yeah cool product!! Seen a good few ppl rocking them at this stage. I always fill my camelback from a britta jug!

ferike1

No love for the klean kanteen?

rubadub

I was given one of those bobble bottles, I loved the idea, but I never use it, the flow is too restrictive for my liking because of the filter. It can be squeezed a bit to get it out faster. Also I have filtered water in work and usually fill my bottle there.

Chancer3001

Im using the bobble bottle.

use it every day, find it very good but it is a bit "loud" when you squeeze it to get water out faster! Pisses people off if youre using it while watching TV or whatever!

scrumqueen

ferike1 wrote: »

No love for the klean kanteen?

Was about to reccommend Klean Kanteen or Sigg bottles! Bit pricey but theyre not plastic or coated and theyre hard wearing so they will do the job nicely, also have choice of what kind of cap you want on it if it's a klean kanteen, not sure about sigg.

ferike1

Klean Kanteen = stainless steel so you don't have to worry about the aluminium poisoning, unlike the sigg bottles.

scrumqueen

ferike1 wrote: »

Klean Kanteen = stainless steel so you don't have to worry about the aluminium poisoning, unlike the sigg bottles.

I thought the sigg bottles were coated with something on the inside to stop that happening. could be wrong now but i thought thats what i was told when trying to choose between the two over stateside!

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ferike1

scrumqueen wrote: »

I thought the sigg bottles were coated with something on the inside to stop that happening. could be wrong now but i thought thats what i was told when trying to choose between the two over stateside!

Yeah but do you want to take the chance of that coating failing?

Can't sue sigg in 30 years if you have alzheimers!

Hanley

Aquila wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007IHJ2DO/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=ATB7YPUHRMCK6
What do ye think of this?

I've the non filter version and like it a lot.

scrumqueen

ferike1 wrote: »

scrumqueen wrote: »

I thought the sigg bottles were coated with something on the inside to stop that happening. could be wrong now but i thought thats what i was told when trying to choose between the two over stateside!

Yeah but do you want to take the chance of that coating failing?

Can't sue sigg in 30 years if you have alzheimers!

I dont particularly care if the coating fails coz I bought the klean kanteen instead :pac:

riveratom

Hanley wrote: »

I've the non filter version and like it a lot.

Got the link to the non-filter one dude? Might be missing it on the site there, but think I need to get one of these bad boys.

Can I ask a question?

I'm going to sound like a complete tit, of course, but: Why not just re-use a water bottle from Ballygowan or the likes?

€25+ for a bottle looks a bit mental to me, personally...?

Hanley

riveratom wrote: »

Got the link to the non-filter one dude? Might be missing it on the site there, but think I need to get one of these bad boys.

Right here is where I got mine: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221090723703

Chancer3001

kkv, mine comes with a filter on top thats why!

brownej

Deleted User wrote: »

Can I ask a question?

I'm going to sound like a complete tit, of course, but: Why not just re-use a water bottle from Ballygowan or the likes?

€25+ for a bottle looks a bit mental to me, personally...?

Apparently excessively reusing a plastic water bottle gives you cancer due to the plastic breaking down and releasing chemicals like BPA and such.

Or so the purveyours of €25 water bottles would have you believe.

As I mentioned before I got the Naglene OTF bottle and I really like it.

ManannanMacLir

Deleted User wrote: »

Can I ask a question?

I'm going to sound like a complete tit, of course, but: Why not just re-use a water bottle from Ballygowan or the likes?

€25+ for a bottle looks a bit mental to me, personally...?

It's to do with recent (how recent I don't know) research linking BPA (bisphenol A, a substance found in plastic bottles) to long-term health problems with the brain, prostate, development of infants to name a few. Reusing the same bottle would then allow more of this BPA to leach into whatever liquid you drink from it over time. There is concern over it but still no conclusive results. From my point of view when I heard of this I bought a stainless steel Klean Kanteen and then a couple of months ago bought this Eco Vessel, I figure it's not too expensive since they last for ages and better to be safe than sorry

rubadub

Why not just re-use a water bottle from Ballygowan or the likes?

The reusing of bottle things is really supposed to be about bottles getting damaged over time.

http://myzerowaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/water-bottle-crushed.jpg

if you crush a bottle like that you can notice whitening/crazing of the plastic at the corners where it folded over on itself. This is where the trouble could start, sort of similar to if a tin can is dented it can cut the plastic lining inside the can and contaminate the food with the normally covered metal.

If you take care of your bottles I do not see the difference between a bottle sitting on the shelf in a supermarket for a year, and you using the same bottle for a year refilling each day.

Unless you think the stuff on the shelf leaches out BPA until it is a saturated solution (like 500ml of water will only dissolve so much table salt). In which case putting fresh water in would releach out some each time it gets refilled.

But I doubt this is the case. It is in the interest of both the reusable bottle and the single use bottle manufacturers to tell you to not reuse those bottles.

If it did releach out when you put in fresh water I still think it could be more advisable to refill an undamaged bottle. The reason being if you bought say 20 bottles of water, and they were sitting for a few months each, then they may have leached out the maximum amount it could get from the bottle in that time. While if you are refilling the bottle each day for 20 days then it only has 24hours to releach chemicals out. Also there is only so much in the bottle to releach. I would be like trying to reuse a teabag 20 times, it should have lower & lower concentrations leached out each time.

brownej

Obviously if you are reusing a water bottle of any type it should be washed out on a regular basis especially the cap.

rubadub

rubadub wrote: »

The reusing of bottle things is really supposed to be about bottles getting damaged over time.


if you crush a bottle like that you can notice whitening/crazing of the plastic at the corners where it folded over on itself. This is where the trouble could start, sort of similar to if a tin can is dented it can cut the plastic lining inside the can and contaminate the food with the normally covered metal.

If you take care of your bottles I do not see the difference between a bottle sitting on the shelf in a supermarket for a year, and you using the same bottle for a year refilling each day.

Unless you think the stuff on the shelf leaches out BPA until it is a saturated solution (like 500ml of water will only dissolve so much table salt). In which case putting fresh water in would releach out some each time it gets refilled.

But I doubt this is the case. It is in the interest of both the reusable bottle and the single use bottle manufacturers to tell you to not reuse those bottles.

If it did releach out when you put in fresh water I still think it could be more advisable to refill an undamaged bottle. The reason being if you bought say 20 bottles of water, and they were sitting for a few months each, then they may have leached out the maximum amount it could get from the bottle in that time. While if you are refilling the bottle each day for 20 days then it only has 24hours to releach chemicals out. Also there is only so much in the bottle to releach. I would be like trying to reuse a teabag 20 times, it should have lower & lower concentrations leached out each time.

So following your own theory, provided you don't actually damage or abuse your bottles, you'd almost be better off re-using the same bottle/s for as long as is possible?

Makes sense to me, if I'm honest. I don't think bottles could release any serious amounts of anything harmful anyway, in my personal opinion (I could obviously be wrong, but surely if there were any seriously harmful issues then we'd long since know about them by now)?

AntiVirus

Deleted User wrote: »

Can I ask a question?

I'm going to sound like a complete tit, of course, but: Why not just re-use a water bottle from Ballygowan or the likes?

€25+ for a bottle looks a bit mental to me, personally...?

There's nothing wrong with using a Ballygowan bottle or any bottle that has a number other than 7 in the recycling label on the bottle.

I have one here that cost me 50 cent, I'll take the label of, wash it out and post it to you for €10 excluding p&p, now thats a bargin!

Chancer3001

the filter is the main reason i bought mine.