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go stainless steel.

The Z Recommends website has a review of the new liner - apparently it may chip, leaving a jagged edge. Seems like plain stainless (Kleen Kanteen) is the way to go. Does anyone know if the old SIGG bottles can be recycled with aluminum cans?

If I were a mean person, I'd let loose some Sigg smug on a certain self-righteous mom who threw a hissy about their kid being offered a shared sip (gasp!) from a plastic bottle (gasp!) by a well-intentioned 3 year old trying to share on the playground (the horror!), then lectured me on plastics.

Seriously.

1) It's probably not the end of the world even if I didn't nicely intervene in time to introduce a caveat to lessons in sharing: "That's nice of you to share...but let's all drink out of our own bottles..."

2) Unknown to her: the plastic bottle was a BPA-free plastic made of corn remnants.

Instead, may she find the safest water bottle in the world; Can't wait to see the inevitable new score in action.

I have to wonder, however, is it really that green to chuck out -- or recycle -- all of these "old" bottles? Sunlight will rapidly breakdown the chemical outbreathing of many plastics and the older bottles are likely "adult safe." (OK, avoid if you're pregnant, etc).

I just wrote sigg a letter to ask them how/if they will replace my kids' bottles. Lets see how fast and what kind of reply I get.

I think it is extremely important to note that the old liners never leached bpa. Also, being completely left out of this story is the fact that many of the lower-end aluminum bottles tested from pottery barn, the container store, and old navy not only contained bpa, but also leached bpa. As far as I know they are still being sold.

Personally, I am just not comfortable drinking out of stainless steel.

I have two old Sigg bottles from the mid-90s that I'm going to continue to use.
http://mysigg.com/bulletin/faq.html
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/are-sigg-aluminum-bottles-bpa-free.php
These two articles say that the trace amounts of BPA contained in the old Siggs didn't leach.

suewanda - pls let us know what they say. if its not too expensive (postage) I would like new ones since I purchased 4!

I also think it is important to note that the old bottles supposedly don't leach BPA. I will be requesting replacements however. Kind of a principle thing as Sigg tried to indicate previously that their bottles were BPA-free (not that they said that, but sort of lying by omission).

I have been concerned about the cheap bottle I purchased at Target and think I will recycle that. I've been trying to get pregnant with number two for two years and don't need any additional issues tripping me up.

Hi everyone -

I received a letter back from the CEO - pretty much the same form letter that others on the net have received. It says that its a voluntary exchange program vs a recall, so they will exchange my bottles if i pay for the mailing in, then they will pay to mail them back. He also mentions the same that CrewJulie above says - the old bottles are not leaching BPA.

I think that that is pretty fair.

sue