Originally Posted by
Mtracer
BPA isn't the only issue and I suspect most name brand bottles are BPA free
Exactly. It was years ago that BPA in baby products was all the rage, so manufacturers started promoting "BPA-free" product containers, as though that made their product containers safe. There's a growing list of other chemicals in plastic that are just as harmful to the human body, not to mention the plastic itself (micro plastics) is being found in human tissue.
- Bisphenol S (BPS) & Bisphenol F (BPF)
- Phthalates
- Styrene (food containers)
- Antimony
- Acetaldehyde
- Nonylphenol (food containers)
- Dioxins
- Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Originally Posted by
Trakhak
I've used 24-oz transparent Gatorade bottles (i.e., the ones with the "sport top") for many years.
Just because you can't taste the plastic doesn't mean it's not leaching into the product.
Originally Posted by
I Like To Ride
Majority of food you buy today comes packaged in some type of plastic. It's a well known fact that levels of testosterone have been decreasing in men for the last few decades. Plastic isn't the main or only cause of it, it's a combination of many different factors. When men aren't allowed to be men and act like men the result is low testosterone.
Yes, I'm not even going to pretend that switching away from plastic water bottles for cycling is going to resolve what is apparently a testosterone crisis. At the age of 50, I need all the testosterone I can scrape-up and hate to be unintentionally sapping it from my body due to poor product choices. I figure that good place to start reducing the harmful effects of plastic is to reduce the use of plastic products (as best I can) that contain food or liquids that I'm going to ingest. I loath drinking out of my plastic cycling water bottle after it's been cooking in the sun for a few hours as I ride, but it seems like the lesser of two evils when compared to being dehydrated. Plastics aside, the pesticides and herbicides that American farmers and food manufacturers use on everything we eat and drink are also endocrine disrupters, so combine that with plastic containers and that's a recipe for disaster that most people are unaware of.