Is Bottled Water BPA-Free? What You Need to Know About BPA in Water Bottles
If you drink bottled water, you may have wondered: Does this plastic bottle contain BPA? The short answer is: Most conventional single-use PET water bottles are not made using BPA as a building block of PET. BPA — bisphenol A — is more closely associated with certain other plastics and epoxy resins, particularly polycarbonate plastics, […]
Environmentally Friendly Water Bottles: Which Options Are Actually Better for the Environment?
What is the most environmentally friendly water bottle? It would be convenient if the answer were simply: glass. Or aluminium. Or stainless steel. Or recycled plastic. Or a plant-based bottle. But environmental impact doesn’t work that way. A bottle has a lifecycle. Raw material → Manufacturing → Filling → Transportation → Use → Reuse → […]
Sustainable Water Bottles: What Actually Makes Water Packaging Sustainable?
What is the most sustainable water bottle? It sounds like a material question. Glass? Stainless steel? Aluminium? Recycled PET? Plant-based plastic? PLA? But focusing only on the bottle material misses most of the sustainability equation. A water bottle’s impact depends on an entire system: Raw materials → Manufacturing → Filling → Transportation → Use → […]
Plastic-Free Water Bottles: What Can You Use Instead of Plastic?
Can a water bottle really be 100% plastic-free? Yes — but you need to look beyond the bottle body. A glass bottle may still have a plastic cap. A stainless-steel bottle may contain a polymer seal. An aluminium bottle may use an internal coating or plastic closure. A paper-based water package may require polymer barrier […]
Alternatives to Plastic Water Bottles: What Can We Use Instead?
Plastic water bottles are lightweight, inexpensive, transparent, strong and easy to manufacture at enormous scale. That’s exactly why replacing them isn’t as simple as choosing another material. A genuine alternative to plastic water bottles still needs to solve the same practical problems: There are several alternatives to conventional plastic bottled water, including: But none is […]
Eco-Friendly Bottles: Materials, Packaging Options & Better Alternatives
A bottle can be reusable. It can be recyclable. It can contain recycled material. It can be made from renewable feedstocks. It can be biodegradable under specific conditions. It can even be designed for composting. But none of those characteristics, by itself, makes a bottle universally eco-friendly. The environmental impact of a bottle depends on […]
Eco-Friendly Water Bottles: Materials, Options & What Actually Makes a Bottle Better
What is the most eco-friendly water bottle? The answer depends on something most “green bottle” comparisons overlook: How will the bottle actually be used? A reusable bottle used hundreds of times is a completely different packaging system from a single-use bottle handed out at an event. A recyclable bottle only delivers its intended benefit when […]
Biodegradable Bottles: What They Are & How They Work
Bottles are everywhere. Water. Juice. Personal care. Hospitality. Events. Food products. Household products. The bottle is one of the world’s most practical packaging formats — but conventional plastic bottles can remain in the waste system long after the product inside them has been consumed. That is driving interest in a different category of packaging: biodegradable […]
Biodegradable Water Bottles: A Better Alternative to Conventional PET
For decades, single-use water packaging has depended heavily on conventional PET plastic. It is lightweight. It is convenient. And it works extremely well as packaging. The problem begins after the water is gone. Not A PET Bottle explores a different approach to bottled water packaging: biodegradable water bottles designed to reduce dependence on conventional fossil-based […]