Our Health Concerns About Plastic and Aluminium Bottles    

DON'T even think about re-filling those plastic drinks bottles.  They're simply not designed for re-use.  Plastic and even aluminium can leach toxic chemicals into your water and single-use bottles can harbour bacteria.

Why not Polycarbonate?

The basic unit that makes up polycarbonate is Bisphenol A, originally synthesized in the 1930's as an oestrogen for pharmacological use.  The fragility of the structure of these bonded units results in significant leaching of Bisphenol A into a variety of substances.  Bisphenol leaching is considerably greater in polycarbonate that is scratched, cloudy, or exhibits wear of any sort. 

 What is Bisphenol A?

Bisphenol-a or BPA is an organic compound with two phenol functional groups used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins and has been identified as a potential carcinogen that can be found within many household plastics. 
It has been associated with some serious health problems such as heart disease, brain synapse, reproductive defects and genetic disorders as well as aggression in children, obesity and hyperactivity.  If you want more information on BPA’s then please click here.

What about Aluminium bottles?

Aluminium bottles are coated with a protective liner (typically epoxy-based) due to potential toxicity and reactive issues with raw aluminium.  But using such a liner defeats the entire purpose of a non-plastic bottle as you are now essentially drinking from an epoxy vessel which really isn't any better than the plastic bottles we are trying to avoid!  If you want more information and want to see the problems encountered by a well known Swiss manufacturer Zigg when doing just this, please click here.