Comments on: Ouch. Patagonia Terminates Relationship With SIGG Over BPA Reveal

By: mary

mary — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:11:14 +0000

i’m so angry!!! when i first wanted to eliminate as much plastics from my childrens life due to toxins and also for the fact of our poor planet, i turned to sigg. and i knew it, i was so suspicious of that lining and the fact that the bottle themselves were made out of aluminium, not to mention the lining peels. i’m pissed, you outlay a fortune to buy these bottles, which i have 8, only to know that they aren’t safe at all. i’m gonna send them back…. mary (adelaide, australia)

By: kelsey

kelsey — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:25:26 +0000

Go klean kanteen

By: Eco Echo TV » Blog Archive » Switch Your Sigg. Now.

Eco Echo TV » Blog Archive » Switch Your Sigg. Now. — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:38:50 +0000

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By: (Green)Grounded » Blog Archive » SIGG Continues to Waiver

(Green)Grounded » Blog Archive » SIGG Continues to Waiver — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:30:04 +0000

[...] most recent kick SIGG has received is “green” retail giant Patagonia withdrawing a co-branding effort with SIGG. Patagonia has even removed all SIGG products, old and new, from their shelves due to the [...]

By: Consequences « fierce knowledge

Consequences « fierce knowledge — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:57:51 +0000

[...] According to Ecorazzi, Sigg was not entirely honest about its BPA content in its supposedly BPA-free bottles until a recent press release. Sigg fessed up to using BPA for its bottle liners in their pre-August 2008 series of water bottles. [...]

By: paul

paul — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:37:32 +0000

I guess everyone should scrap aluminum and go with a bottle made of food grade stainless steel. Nathan makes one as does a few other companies. Aluminum is bad for you, period.

By: Five Easy Go-Green Tips | Eat Clean Live Green

Five Easy Go-Green Tips | Eat Clean Live Green — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:06:02 +0000

[...] are now made from BPA-free plastic. While it’s recently been released that older versions of SIGG bottles have BPA in their liners, it’s probably still not something to be concerned about; to release BPA from [...]

By: LMA

LMA — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:05:16 +0000

However Treehugger came to that conclusion doesn’t change the fact that whenever *any* retailer or consumer asked SIGG what was in the bottles, they were very particular in their reply of saying it was “safe” while dodging all questions of BPA or what else exactly they were using to line their bottles. Basically, SIGG knew if they confessed outright to BPA, they’d be forced to do a massive recall and after a delay as they tested and retested alternative materials would eventually have come out with a new product the way Nalgene had to. OTOH, if they hedged and hawed and never quite answered the question while holding up pretty bottles with multicolored fashionable designs and said “look, these are metal, not plastic” they could stand to gain greatly at Nalgene’s misfortune. Which is exactly what they did. But you know, taking advantage of another corporation’s mistake, when it’s the SAME materials mistake your company has been hiding, those kinds of things come around to bite you in the end.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:52:02 +0000

I still don’t understand how they didn’t know. It is metal coated in plastic just like a soda can. It’s the same stuff. How can you not see that with your eyes?

By: Waylon Lewis

Waylon Lewis — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:21:20 +0000

LMA, we might being a little hindsight-harsh. Treehugger looked into SIGG in depth, and gave them a thumbs up, highest rating.

Thanks for the blog, Michael!