Do you use a waterbottle, if so what kind

[NightWatcher]

We all know how terrible plastic bottles are for the environment......

When you go out of the house, do you carry a water bottle (for camping, hiking, biking, etc)?

If it's not plastic what do you use? A Camelback? A Sigg? (the aluminum-alzheimers link scares me)

Would like your imput here.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. I use a disposable plastic water bottle

except I keep refilling it. It'll eventually start leaking and get replaced by another disposable water bottle. I put one in the bottle-holder on the frame, others in a bag if I think I'll need them.

I have no idea how much energy is used to create a plastic water bottle vs an aluminum water bottle. No way to measure total carbon footprint, or too lazy to figure it out.

:hi:

[NightWatcher]

2. from what I hear the plastic bottles let all kinds of nastiness into the water from the plastic

[SteveM]

3. Hadn't heard of a leaching problem, but I'm with Bozo on this one...

I have a few disposable Coke, Pepsi, AW bottles (way over-built, in my estimation) which I have refilled for years on hunting, fishing, camping trips. I mean, dozens of times. At campsite I keep 5 gals. of water in a commercial plastic pickle bottle w/ handle, found near a dumpster.

God, do I live cheap.

[appal_jack]

4. Klean Kanteen Stainless Steel waterbottle

The improvement over both polyethylene (milky white plastic) and polycarbonate (harder, clearer plastic) Nalgene bottles (in both taste and general sense of well-being) is vast.

Klean Kanteens are tough too. I have dropped them off my tractor, and also dropped large rocks onto them. The rocks did leave dents, but they still hold water just fine.

Made in China though. :-( Would buy American Stainless Steel bottles if I could find some.

-app

[kestrel91316]

5. I used the old white Nalgene wide-mouth bottle for years.

Supposedly that soft plastic is really bad for leaching.

My new bottle is also Nalgene brand, but it is a harder plastic so I imagine that's the improved kind, less prone to leaching.

[Deep13]

6. Camel Back that fits in my napsack.

In the desert, I usually put another gallon of water in the main compartment in 1l Nalgene bottles.

[Kolesar]

7. I heard that Nalgene discontinued the hard-plastic bottles due to health risk

...and went back to the old (polyethylene?) bottles. You better investigate this for yourself if you want the whole story.