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RE: Some thoughts on ... water bottles
I have some ideas on this point:
Perhaps there are health risks involved in using bottles that are leeching plastics?
It strongly depends on the kind of plastic used, but yes, they could leak chemicals like BPA and/or Phtalates, which are hormonally active compounds (so-called "endocrine disruptors"). Leeching especially occurs when plastic bottles are not treated the right way (e.g. if hot or acid drinks are filled in) or when they are older (little scratches enhance the active surface hat chemicals can leak from).
Interesting. So the recommendation from that article (to clean the bottles with hot water at least daily) could possibly be a bad advice? And some plastic bottles may work out for water, but are unsuitable for orange juice and soda water?
Cleaning with hot water shouldn't be a problem (you normally don't drink the cleaning water^^). I would definatly not store orange juice in there - but as said, the leaking depends on the material aswell. Colourless PET for example is inert, meaning that nothing can leak from it.
I did read a while ago that bottled water had an "alarming" amount of micro plastics in it. Anyway, I do take that as support for one of my claims in my post - if one has to go for plastic water bottle, then a cheap colourless PET-bottle is probably one of the best choices.