-----Original Message----- >From: Ed Alexander <eda...@realtime.net> >Sent: Apr 4, 2007 1:46 PM >To: "Cavers,Texas" <Texascavers@texascavers.com> >Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Nalgene bottles toxic? > >We used to use glass for carboys and bottles containing water, reagents, >drinks, etc. As we know these have all been replaced by plastics for >reasons of weight, fragility and transportation expense. (Except for the >beer industry - they must know of the problems of leaching from >plastics.) Now there are problems with health, pollution, recycling (or >lack thereof). The mexican countryside is well decorated with >multicolored plactic bottles and bags. I finally found the 5 gal water >garrafons made of glass in Oaxaca last year. I really hate to store the >mescal in the plastic ones.
Back over 40 years ago. our Explorer post used 2-gallon plastic Phisohex (a now discontinued due to carcinogenicity medical cleanser) jugs to carry our water in. 10 years before that, we'd follow the DDT sprayer truck around on summer nights in South Texas on our bicycles. We'd also hang out at the most interesting place in town, the airfield, to hangout with the cropdusters. The field became a Superfund site, BTW. still moderately alive, Ted http://home.infionline.net/~tbsamsel/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
