Head Butler -- Products: SIGG Water Bottles

So you stop buying bottled water and start filtering your water at home.

Then comes the disconnect.

When you're going out to exercise...

When you want to send water in your kid's lunchbox....

When you're missing the style statement that you used to get from sporting a bottle of Evian...

...where do you put your water?

Obvious answer: Why, in one of the many plastic water bottles you've got around the house. So what if you're drinking city water improved by a PUR filter! Let the world think you're drinking "better". And, hey, you're recycling, aren't you?

Good thought. But plastic bottles degrade over time -- that's why they have a sell-by date on the label. And if you've taken a step into the ecologically correct future, do you really want to be carrying your water in a container that screams 1999?

So...a thermos. But which kind?

Here we get into a debate between the Establishment and the Cutting Edgers. The Establishment says anything currently on the market is just dandy. The Cutting Edgers say that food, fruit and soda cans are lined with a plastic-and-resin chemical called bisphenol A (BPA). The government has no limit to the amount of BPA in containers. That freaks many out. As Cutting Edgers say:

The ester bond that links BPA monomers to one another to form a polymer is not stable and hence the polymer decays with time, releasing BPA into materials with which it comes into contact, for example food or water.

More to the point, they believe that PBAs leaching into food and water can cause birth defects.

If so, the Cutting Edgers have identified a significant consumer bummer:

Bisphenol A-based polycarbonate is used as a plastic coating for children's teeth to prevent cavities, as a coating in metal cans to prevent the metal from contact with food contents, as the plastic in food containers, refrigerator shelving, baby bottles, water bottles, returnable containers for juice, milk and water, microwave ovenware and eating utensils.

Then there's the Establishment view.

Just to make it more confusing: In 2006, San Francisco banned toys and child care products if they contained PBAs. In 2007, San Francisco repealed the ban.

Whom to believe? Like many Americans, I lack confidence that government agencies charged with protecting my family are actually doing their jobs. I'd rather be safe. So instead of drinking from bottles with the potential to do me harm, I'd rather use a container that doesn't leach because it has "a water-based, non-toxic coating that is baked into the interior walls and remains flexible and crack resistant for the life of the bottle."

That is the Sigg container. The lining is not plastic; it's micro-thin epoxy. It starts taste-neutral, and, over time, seems to stay that way. You can put it in a dishwasher (though that does, over time, dull the finish). And, when it's outlived its usefulness, it's 100% recyclable.

There are literally dozens of styles, and sizes and mouthpieces for all age groups, from baby to tri-athlete.

And -- because who's not a little shallow? -- you'll be the first on your block.

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-- by Jesse Kornbluth, for HeadButler.com

To buy the Sigg Lifestyle Loop Top Water Bottle from Amazon.com, click here.

To buy the Sigg .6 Liter Active Top Bottle from Amazon.com, click here.

To buy the Sigg 1.0 Liter Active Top Bottle from Amazon.com, click here.

To buy the Sigg Kids .4 Liter Aluminum Water Bottle from Amazon.com, click here.

To buy the Sigg Baby 0.3 Liter Aluminum Water Bottle from Amazon.com, click here.

Copyright 2008 by Head Butler Inc.

Jesse Kornbluth

8/15/08

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