Submitted by Fefolino t3_y9etrw in BuyItForLife
Hi! Can you please tell me which is safer for health, if a Plastic (BPA-Free), Aluminium or Stainless Steel water bottle or if are all ok?
I heard that Stainless Steel are the best if it has to stay under the sun, but I need a water bottle to keep in my backpack, plastic ones are obv lighter, but I don't know if are ok for the health
Can you help me?
Thanks!
Yeah I love my stainless but I also love my plastic naglene. I think when one eventually breaks, likely the naglene that I won't get another plastic bottle. I think I'd get a stainless naglene as the stainless bottle I have doesn't have the best lid and has a rubber washer that is almost impossible to remove and clean. Not to mention it will decay.
Stainless steel is the healthiest of the three. They're not very heavy either.
BPA isn't the only harmful thing leeching from plastics.
Pthalates are another harmful substance coming from plastic. They never get as much attention as BPA, but were identified a long time ago.
Plus they don’t just take out the BPA, it serves a purpose and the plastic wouldn’t function the same without it (I think it makes it more flexible). Instead, they just use a similar compound that is chemically different enough that they can SAY it is not BPA, but still will have the same effect. In the US, companies don’t have to prove that a chemical is safe before they use it, it is on consumers and consumer advocates to prove something is harmful after the fact. So theoretically, the new chemical might be just as bad or worse than whatever is being replaced.
BPA has been replaced by almost the exact same chemical, BPS and is causing the exact same health problems.
BPA-free is pretty much a meaningless description.
Exactly. This fact has been largely overlooked.
I've recently replaced my old plastic bottle with a Klean Kanteen stainless steel single wall bottle, and I will never look back. It's surprisingly light, fits a little more water than my old one with pretty much the same height and the taste of the water is just so much better!
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Who said it wasn’t?
Heavy
I wanna know to
Glass is the best option in terms of potential health toxicity.
Thick glass with a rubber coating on the outside is shockingly durable as well. But heavy af
Any recommendations for a glass water bottle?
a Flensburger Pilsener Beer Bottle. https://www.fleggaard.dk/Services/ImageHandler.ashx?imgId=124443&sizeId=0&RevisionNo=120_0
Stainless steel. I use Stanley but it’s up to you! Plus durability, stainless steel will handle drops and dings. I have a old one and it’s so beat up but it tells a story
Titanium
You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I’m a Kleen Kanteen person love it - thrown a coffee thermos 30 feet up into a tree to get a disc down that was caught, it hit the ground multiple times, i still use it almost daily for coffee or water. Get double hulled also Fyi
Second the Klean Kanteen motion. I’m loyal to this brand for liquid containers.
You've got three choices: Plastic, Metal or Glass.
Glass is best for health but poor for durability in extreme cases.
Metal is good for health, good for durability but heavy.
Plastic isn't the best for health unless you go for a specific type of plastic (not BPA-free, because there are chemicals that can still leech out when plastic breaks down I think HDPE is solid) and is very light and cheap.
Stick with metal. Glass can be cool too if you don't expect to be in a gun fight.
> Metal is good for health, good for durability but heavy.
Errr, WTF? That is overly broad.
Aluminium is a metal and super light, far lighter than glass.
Mercury is a metal, it does not hold water and is super bad for health.
This guys makes a fantastic point. Do not under any circumstances but mercury and use it as a water bottle. Harmful to health and will not work well.
Oh, shit.
User name checks out.
Aluminium is also a neurotoxic, if nowhere near as bad as mercury
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I use glass from mana. Very good quality
I used to be a Nalgene guy but recently switched to a Swell stainless insulated bottle. I cannot recommend the Swell bottles and tumblers enough!
Aluminum is infinitely recyclable. Plastic and steel are not. Aluminum also uses a lot less energy during the recycling process than plastic.
Just dont wash your aluminum in the dishwasher or you start to get pitting that leeches toxic aluminum oxide
steel is also indefinitely recyclable. The best steel is actually made from recycled steel since the recycling process is quite compatible with the production steps for special steel alloys.
Aluminium is a neurotoxic
Weight wise, single walled metal (stainless steel or aluminum) are light weight, comparable to thicker plastics. Double walled can insulate quite well.
Whenever I’ve used stainless the water has had a metallic taste. Does that happen with all stainless or just the one I had? I couldn’t do it.
That's usually only from cheaper quality stainless steel. Stick with quality brands and you should be good to go.
Is copper bottle safe to use? I hear they last a long time but it’s not very light and changes the taste of the water.
Copper is toxic
get a silver bottle :)
Glass
Stainless steel or reinforced glass are my materials of choice for portable beverage containers. Heavier, but non-reactive so there is little need to worry about leeching material.
Aluminum and BPA both leach material over time Stainless steel does too (very little, though), but iron in water is a supplement rather than a toxin
Definitely stainless steel. And it keeps the cold or hot in for a long time
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Only if they are coated inside (and those coatings often have... BPA). Aluminium is a neurotoxic.
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Stainless.