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Stainless Steel Bottles Are For More Than Just Water
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I wanted to share one of my favorite things to fill my stainless steel water bottles with. I have to admit I have found the transition to stainless steel water bottles a little bit hard at times. I do not enjoy plain water but prefer it to have some flavor, which is normally found in convenient plastic bottles. I must say the best thing for me to fill my stainless steel water bottle with has been Crystal Light.
Crystal Light is a powder which is added to water in order to make a calorie free beverage. Crystal Light comes in a large packet that can fill a jug, and then you can fill your bottle with it as needed. They also have singles that you can use to make individual portions but that’s more unnecessary packaging. Buy in bulk whenever possible.
One of the best aspects of using Crystal Light is the variety of flavors it comes in: Cherry Pomegranate, LiveActive Raspberry Peach, LiveActive Mixed Berry, Green Tea Honey Lemon, Pink Lemonade, Peach Iced Tea, Strawberry Kiwi, Lemon Lime, Tangerine Grapefruit, Raspberry Ice and Strawberry Orange Banana. The LiveActive varieties contain “3g of prebiotic inulin fibre per 500 mL serving”. Don’t forget that the box it comes in can be recycled and it is a lot less waste than the average case of plastic bottled water.
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We wanted to share an e-mail we received about our sponsorship and participation in the “A Midsummer Night’s Run” 2009. The run is an annual event organized in support of the Department of Rheumatology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. The e-mail was from a former patient from SickKids, who was first diagnosed with Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in the sixties.
“I want to thank Planet Forward, which is more known to be an eco-friendly company, for their donation of stainless steel water bottles and sponsorship at this year’s Run for the Department of Rheumatology at SickKids Hospital. I have always believed not enough attention is granted to this devastating disease and there does not seem to be enough being done for arthritis research. It’s nice to see a corporation recognize this as well and take action in support.
I have arthritis and have lived with the pain of it for most of my life. When I was diagnosed as a child the options opened to me at the time were few, and involved a combination of over the counter drugs, paraffin wax treatments and physiotherapy. Unfortunately I was in a wheelchair for two years, unable to walk in my early teens. I have had many bouts of the disease, which continues to ravage all my joints. I have also had a few periods of remission, which were very welcomed, but it always came back with a vengeance.
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Posted by: | CommentsIn August 2009, SIGG CEO Steve Wasik, posted a letter to customers (scroll to the end of this article to read the full letter) announcing that their former aluminum bottle liner contained trace amounts of BPA (Bisphenol A). SIGG customers were infuriated to learn that they had been duped. Most believed that SIGG was a BPA-free bottle, instead it was coated with an interior epoxy liner with BPA content. Wasik also confessed that they knew about the BPA in SIGG bottles since 2006!!
This month, the CEO has posted a new letter in an effort to diffuse consumer outrage about how SIGG has handled the BPA-liner catastrophe. SIGG finally apologized for misleading customers for over 3 years. You can read the full letter at the end of this article. This is an excerpt from Wasik’s bulletin:
“After reading and responding to hundreds of emails and viewing nearly as many blog & Twitter posts, I realize that my first letter may have missed the mark. What I should have said simply and loudly to all of our loyal SIGG fans is: I am sorry that we did not make our communications on the original SIGG liner more clear from the very beginning.
I have learned much over the past 2 weeks. I learned that many of you purchased SIGG bottles – not just because they were free from leaching and safe – but because you believed that SIGGs contained no BPA. I learned that, although SIGG never marketed the former liner as “BPA Free” we should have done a better job of both clearly communicating about our liner as well as policing others who may have misunderstood the SIGG message. ”
So Wasik declares mea culpa over not being clear about the former BPA liner and everything is ok, right? An apology hardly restores consumer confidence when you feel betrayed. Especially since SIGG launched it’s new EcoCare BPA-free liner in August 2008 – apologies that take a year to deliver don’t result in forgiveness. Plus, SIGG has known since 2006 that it’s former liner contained BPA, so really that apology is 3 years overdue. The lack of honesty doesn’t exactly build trust. Sounds like SIGG did what’s best for SIGG and not their customers.
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