Comments on: Is it Safe to Heat Water Bottles?

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:42:07 +0000

This method works well and I have tried it because I was skeptical when a friend in the Army described it to me. Keep in mind, this isn’t something someone should do all the time. I only used this method to warm water for shaving in the woods on a cold morning. For those concerned about health issues, remember, this is a method for sterilizing water in an extreme survival situation. Other than that, water should be warmed in a tin or iodine tablets should be used.

By: Antimony: Another reason to avoid bottled water… and polar fleece? : Fake Plastic Fish

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:40:26 +0000

[...] night, Martin from Plasticless posted a video demonstrating how to boil water in a plastic bottle (the typical #1 PET disposable bottle) and wondered if this practice was safe. He, like most of us, [...]

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When A Problem Comes Along… | 1800blogger — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:35:55 +0000

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By: Plasticless

Plasticless — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:18:26 +0000

Thanks for the info, Sally. Elements like lead and mercury are hard to avoid entirely and we have to content ourselves with minimizing wherever possible. A complex chemical like antimony is another story entirely.

By: Sally Field

Sally Field — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:29:51 +0000

But I have another study BY THE SAME PEOPLE that shows that glass is just as bad (or good) as PET. Glass leaches lead, PET leaches antimony. In both cases, the amounts are about the same. In other words, the amounts are both SMALL.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17547171?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

By: Beth Terry, aka Fake Plastic Fish

Beth Terry, aka Fake Plastic Fish — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:42:06 +0000

Wow. Did I ever find the article for you: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17707454 This study of antimony leaching from PET bottles last year shows that the higher the temperature, the more the leaching.

By: Green Business Guy

Green Business Guy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:15:33 +0000

I always wondered the same thing. I’ve seen Bear Grylls do it on the TV show Man vs Wild, but always thought that it would be dangerous.

I hadn’t planned on trying it. I carry a tin cup for boiling while camping.

Great article