Top 5 Reusable Water Bottles
Where's you plastic bottle dress?
In keeping with today’s wintry posts, and ahead of the greenest holiday shopping season ever, here’s a way to keep healthy in cool temperatures and reduce contributions to global warming. Amid imperatives to hydrate in cold weather and stop expanding the Pacific’s plastic continent, why not pick up a reusable water bottle for you, your friends and family?
Just imagine the smug environmental superiority you’ll radiate throughout the holiday season! To help decide what kind of bottle will complement your particular shade of green, Listicles looks at three “Best Reusable Bottle” lists.
The Good Human’s survey of reusable water bottles is slanted in favor of metal containers over plastic bottles, which is partly justified by the opening paragraph on the dangers of leeching plastics. Their top picks are both relatively ubiquitous now: the aluminum Sigg bottles and stainless steel Klean Kanteen containers.
They look almost as weird as platypi.
A good counterpoint to that heavy metal list comes from The Green Guide, where a list specifically devoted to differentiating safe plastics from dangerous plastics provides useful background about the dangers of many common plastics. Unfortunately, it ends up endorsing a number of options that have been discontinued or are extremely obscure.
If you’re looking to stand out from the folks with Siggs and Klean Kanteens, Slate’s Laura Moser has a list for you. Her Top 8 covers a mix of more or less satisfactory metal, plastic and corn resin bottles, some hard, others collapsible.
In the end, Moser endorses the soft (and safe) plastic Platypus for its cool, compacting style (pictured). Of course, if you’re looking to accrue environmental cred during the gift-giving holidays, something that squeezes so easily into an organic cotton holiday stocking might not be what you’re after.
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