Alternative to Plastic Water Bottle
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Originally Posted by KonradNYC
I'm in total agreement with you. Everyone's talking about these aluminum bottles verses plastic bottles. Just get a stainless steel Klean Kanteen. Mine don't rattle at all and I use a standard metal bottle cage. However, if you're worried it's gonna rattle, Klean Kanteen makes a plastic bottle cage designed for the metal bottle.
Also, the water comes out just as fast as squeezing a plastic bottle, due to the suction valve in the cap. Plus, they look way better. If you're not a weight weenie and you want good tasting water, I don't see why you'd go with anything else.
Also, the water comes out just as fast as squeezing a plastic bottle, due to the suction valve in the cap. Plus, they look way better. If you're not a weight weenie and you want good tasting water, I don't see why you'd go with anything else.
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Originally Posted by Machka
I work in Alberta ... in the oil and gas industry. The company I work for makes plastics ... you know ... the little plastic beads that go into making things like ... plastic grocery bags and bicycle bottles.
It's kind of important to me to keep the production of those sorts of things going.
It's kind of important to me to keep the production of those sorts of things going.
The Athabasca river be damned.
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Let's assume an average cyclist use one plastic bottle per year and an average cyclist cycle for 40 years. That's forty bottles per cyclist. Take that and times by total number of cyclists in the world. I'll guess that's a huge number. Besides, these bottles take hundreds of years to decompose. I prefer to use zero plastic bottle.
Note that a lot of fuel is burned for every product made from aluminum.
I probably have enough plastic grocery bags to last me the rest of my life if I just re-use them until they're worn out. I try hard to avoid getting new ones by reusing them and by using my backpack.
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Originally Posted by Bikepacker67
Yes, we must continue to make little plastic beads.
The Athabasca river be damned.
The Athabasca river be damned.
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But just wondering .... has anyone here looked into what it takes to make a stainless steel or aluminum bottles? You don't just pick them off the trees ... there's a lot of processing, pollution, and all the rest of it. Are they really an environmentally friendly option?
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Originally Posted by Machka
It keeps me employed, so I'm happy.
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But just wondering .... has anyone here looked into what it takes to make a stainless steel or aluminum bottles? You don't just pick them off the trees ... there's a lot of processing, pollution, and all the rest of it. Are they really an environmentally friendly option?
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But just wondering .... has anyone here looked into what it takes to make a stainless steel or aluminum bottles? You don't just pick them off the trees ... there's a lot of processing, pollution, and all the rest of it. Are they really an environmentally friendly option?
Basically, we're flucked, because we've created this unsustainable house of cards.
Sorry to be such a downer, but it's the plain truth.
BTW, Machka, have you read up on some of the absolute devastation that oil companies are inflicting upon the "oil sands"? Do you know that cancer rates are through the roof? You can't eat the fish, you can't drink the water... WTF kind of world are we creating?
It ain't pretty, and it will lead to painful consequences.
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Originally Posted by ax0n
Wholeheartedly agree. I tell the cashier to put stuff back in the cart
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So let's all just stop carrying bottles AT ALL and just hunt for drinking fountains along our commute routes.
Or we could all carry camel bladders like one of the posters above mentioned.
Or we could all carry camel bladders like one of the posters above mentioned.
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Originally Posted by ax0n
We also re-use plastic grocery sacks for similar purposes as you do, when we get them.
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Originally Posted by Bikepacker67
No, they're not.
Basically, we're flucked, because we've created this unsustainable house of cards.
Sorry to be such a downer, but it's the plain truth.
BTW, Machka, have you read up on some of the absolute devastation that oil companies are inflicting upon the "oil sands"? Do you know that cancer rates are through the roof? You can't eat the fish, you can't drink the water... WTF kind of world are we creating?
It ain't pretty, and it will lead to painful consequences.
Basically, we're flucked, because we've created this unsustainable house of cards.
Sorry to be such a downer, but it's the plain truth.
BTW, Machka, have you read up on some of the absolute devastation that oil companies are inflicting upon the "oil sands"? Do you know that cancer rates are through the roof? You can't eat the fish, you can't drink the water... WTF kind of world are we creating?
It ain't pretty, and it will lead to painful consequences.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
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Don't forget that those plastic bags can be recycled, too. Most Whole Foods stores, just to name an example, have bins that you can throw them into for recycling.
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Originally Posted by JR97
Bear Grylls sucked water from elephant dung on Man vs Wild. Now that is manly.
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Originally Posted by Machka
It keeps me employed, so I'm happy.
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But just wondering .... has anyone here looked into what it takes to make a stainless steel or aluminum bottles? You don't just pick them off the trees ... there's a lot of processing, pollution, and all the rest of it. Are they really an environmentally friendly option?
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But just wondering .... has anyone here looked into what it takes to make a stainless steel or aluminum bottles? You don't just pick them off the trees ... there's a lot of processing, pollution, and all the rest of it. Are they really an environmentally friendly option?
Anyway, originally my main point was that water just TASTES BETTER coming from a steel bottle. Everyone can argue all they want about what's more environmentally friendly...I'm going with the taste and health issue (no leaching with steel).
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Originally Posted by fender1
Only issue I had with my Klean Kanteen was that coming down a hill at 33mph I hit a bump and a full bottle flew out of my cage and was crushed by and SUV behind me. At $16 a pop it can be a pricey to lose vs. $3-$4 for a plastic one.
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Originally Posted by dobber
Indispensable for isolating and removing soiled toddler diapers. Super handy for picking up dog poop on the nightly sojourn. And very effective for disposing of dead squirrels.
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Originally Posted by sdime
Let's assume an average cyclist use one plastic bottle per year
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I think we should learn from my ancestors...with all the road kill we cyclists see, we could easily make gut bladders to carry our water, rather then threaten the human race by using those 1yr plastic bottle.
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About the "bad taste" of plastic bottles:
When I buy one, I wash it with soap and water, then I open it and vent it for a few days. Then I put water and leave it there for a few days. Then I empty it and leave it to air dry. Smell and taste are gone.
When I buy one, I wash it with soap and water, then I open it and vent it for a few days. Then I put water and leave it there for a few days. Then I empty it and leave it to air dry. Smell and taste are gone.
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Originally Posted by Michel Gagnon
About the "bad taste" of plastic bottles:
When I buy one, I wash it with soap and water, then I open it and vent it for a few days. Then I put water and leave it there for a few days. Then I empty it and leave it to air dry. Smell and taste are gone.
When I buy one, I wash it with soap and water, then I open it and vent it for a few days. Then I put water and leave it there for a few days. Then I empty it and leave it to air dry. Smell and taste are gone.
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Recent trip to Germany. Interesting differences from Australia and NAmerica:
- Bottle of water 70 euro cents; deposit on plastic or glass bottle, 15-25 cents. Guess what: people don't throw out recyclables.
- No plastic grocery bags at all. None. BYO or learn to juggle.
- Bikes everywhere. Looks like a uni campus, everywhere.
I don't think non-disposable plastic water bottles are a problem, but there are better ways of doing things than throwing out packaging every time you take a drink or go to the shops.
- Bottle of water 70 euro cents; deposit on plastic or glass bottle, 15-25 cents. Guess what: people don't throw out recyclables.
- No plastic grocery bags at all. None. BYO or learn to juggle.
- Bikes everywhere. Looks like a uni campus, everywhere.
I don't think non-disposable plastic water bottles are a problem, but there are better ways of doing things than throwing out packaging every time you take a drink or go to the shops.
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Originally Posted by Cave
Recent trip to Germany. Interesting differences from Australia and NAmerica:
- Bottle of water 70 euro cents; deposit on plastic or glass bottle, 15-25 cents. Guess what: people don't throw out recyclables.
- No plastic grocery bags at all. None. BYO or learn to juggle.
- Bikes everywhere. Looks like a uni campus, everywhere.
I don't think non-disposable plastic water bottles are a problem, but there are better ways of doing things than throwing out packaging every time you take a drink or go to the shops.
- Bottle of water 70 euro cents; deposit on plastic or glass bottle, 15-25 cents. Guess what: people don't throw out recyclables.
- No plastic grocery bags at all. None. BYO or learn to juggle.
- Bikes everywhere. Looks like a uni campus, everywhere.
I don't think non-disposable plastic water bottles are a problem, but there are better ways of doing things than throwing out packaging every time you take a drink or go to the shops.
½ kidding. ☺
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Originally Posted by Michel Gagnon
About the "bad taste" of plastic bottles:
When I buy one, I wash it with soap and water, then I open it and vent it for a few days. Then I put water and leave it there for a few days. Then I empty it and leave it to air dry. Smell and taste are gone.
When I buy one, I wash it with soap and water, then I open it and vent it for a few days. Then I put water and leave it there for a few days. Then I empty it and leave it to air dry. Smell and taste are gone.
Anyway, everyone should use whatever works best for him/her. If you like plastic better, by all means use it. I prefer not to if I can help it. The OP was looking for some alternatives to plastic and stainless steel is what I use...just my 2 cents.
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If you're worried about the taste of the water, you're not thirsty enough.
Jeez, what a bunch of... ah, shutting up now.
I have been using the same cheap plastic bottle that came for free on a cheap bike for about 4 years now. It doesn't look any different than when new other than a bit worn on the outside.
I also reuse "disposable" bottles for weeks at a time. What's the problem supposed to be with this? I think people are so used to sterilized everything that their bodies react badly to anything vaguely stale.
Jeez, what a bunch of... ah, shutting up now.
I have been using the same cheap plastic bottle that came for free on a cheap bike for about 4 years now. It doesn't look any different than when new other than a bit worn on the outside.
I also reuse "disposable" bottles for weeks at a time. What's the problem supposed to be with this? I think people are so used to sterilized everything that their bodies react badly to anything vaguely stale.
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