I hope this article goes viral (unlikely, I know).
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No, I’m talking about this:
If I were to get one of those non-cocktail-friendly tall tumblers, it would be this one:
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From the article that you linked: “There isn’t any public data available on the impact of reusable water bottles, but Cohen said the massive amounts of energy and resources required to produce and transport something like a Stanley cup negates the environmental benefit, if people keep buying new bottles.”
This is true for many “green/greener” products on the market. Example - in communities that ban plastic grocery bags, sales of small trash bags to line bathroom/office sized trash cans has gone through the roof. Those trash bags take a huge amount of energy and resources to manufacture. Much much more than the thin grocery bags.
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We still have lots of bags from takeout food and amazon so we haven’t had to buy new bags. The last time I bought trash bags was years ago when I was checking out at Costco and the person in line ahead of me was trying to get rid of some of his purchases, including four of the six rolls of trash bags he bought for his vrbo. I got one of two rolls of foil and several rolls of trash bags for like $10! We are still trying to use up the trash bags & foil!
For the Amazon bags, either I take off the address sticker or just turn the bag outside in so that the label is the part that gets full of trash and ick. I feel if I’m repurposing the bags it’s better than just tossing them after I extract merchandise. Sometimes we are able to reuse the bags by turning them outside in and tape a new label to it and return products to other addresses. The bags are pretty sturdy so a shame to waste. The bags protect clothing adequately.
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I love the Amazon bags esp the padded ones. I use them for sending my etsy makes out. That bag is the padding and then they go in another bag to stay waterproof.
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I’m very late to this thread, but we have two Zojirushi flasks. I put tea in mine. Once, I stupidly made the tea in the flask and burned my mouth to cinders. Now I make the tea first and wait for it to cool before I put it in the flask. It keeps things hot for almost 24 hours.
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I feel like the water bottle trend really began 20+ years ago with the Nalgene water bottle. I don’t like drinking out of plastic water bottles (even reusable ones affect how the water tastes), so I love my Yeti cups for keeping my water cold all day at work. We have a refilling station, but it’s not cold water. So I fill my big Yeti cup with ice at home, refill it with water at work multiple times, and it stays icy for two days. At home, I generally have another big Yeti cup (30 oz) that I’ll drink from and refill for the day. But, I don’t take one with me in the car unless we’re on a long drive. It’s interesting to me that this particular trend is getting so much flak — is it because it’s mostly women/girls buying the new Stanley cups? If it was a product aimed at guys would it even be a topic?
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I think it is because of the latest Stanley offerings at Target of the red and pink cup. They had lines to get in, people swarming the store, limits of how many could be purchased and then resellers charging insane prices. This seems a little cray cray to me . Guys were also buying them (probably because their wives made them 
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It’s not always safe to reuse them.
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After this week’s report about nanoplastics in water bottles I’m sure more people will switch to metal reusable containers.
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I grocery shop online (have done this forever, helps with meal planning plus I’m an impulse buyer), my order comes with a dozen reusable bags each week. They will accept them back, but I think they just get thrown out. I do drop off at the local food pantry. And now I buy dog poop bags.
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I just saw on the Today Show how popular Stanley water bottles were - I had no idea.
My husband also has that same Stanley thermos - he has been using it since 1984!
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I’m right there with you. I’ve just never gotten into the habit. I drink it when I exercise, but mostly I prefer coffee. I have a collection of water bottles I reuse, a handful I got at reunions and the like, or I drink my water out of travel mugs. DH and I bought two - two liter bag things of water for our hike, but we never finished even one of them even on the longest days.
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We mainly use water bottles when we are on airplanes or in airports. At meals, we drink the water that is served.
I believe the last time I bought trash bags was when I was trying to be kind to a visitor at Costco who was buying cleaning materials, foil and other supplies at Costco. I believe he ended up with six rolls of kitchen garbage bags and multiple rolls of foil. I agreed to buy sone rolls of trash bags and a roll of foil to be helpful. I think I paid $10 or $20 and ended up with four rolls of trash bags and a roll of two of foil. It was pre-covid so 2019 or earlier—haha! I’m obviously not going through the bags very quickly as we still have two more unused rolls of trash bags! We get large plastic bags for takeout and sone from Amazon purchases. We repurpose them as trash bag liners.
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I only drink water when I’m thirsty. So I may bring ice water in a reusable bottle to work when it’s hot. However, I will take a reusable bottle with Emergen-C to water aerobics and force myself to drink it in hopes of forestalling leg cramps. That works about 70% of the time. Otherwise I don’t see a reason to drink when I’m not thirsty.
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By the time that we feel thirsty, we may already be dehydrated.
If our urine is colorless, then we’re getting enough water. If not colorless, then our body is probably dehydrated.
Also, and I’m not a doctor, but one of the reasons we should not wait to feel thirsty is that as our body ages, it’s not as good at sending “thirst signals” to our brains when we’re dehydrated.
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Your post reminded me we have a bunch of Nalgene bottles in the cupboard. Some of them date back over 30 years I think. We used them for camping. Two of mine were also bikers and we had a lot of the plastic bottles that fit in the cage on the bike. I never liked the taste of the plastic bottles.
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I wouldn’t use older Nalgene bottles. They had BPA.
We end up to be Hydro Flask family because of me… During Covid I saw Hydro Flask on sale (all under $20) at Marshalls. I 've got a collection. At least one water bottle for every family member (husband refused - he has his own collection of Hydro Peaks of different sizes for different purposes). I have 3 - different sizes and tops. One for coffee in the car, one for water during hiking etc, and “baby” for the tea outside in cold weather. One daughter has 3 - one is huge with a straw, she is always not drinking enough. Another daughter has Hydro Flask for water and Mira bottle for tea… Son has only one reusable bottle - Hydro Flask. We probably have around 15 bottles + plus tumblers for 5 people…
We still drink out of single use bottles - mainly Crystal Geyser flavored water. Each bottle tends to get reused for things like mixing up DH’s daily vitamin/magnesium/fiber potion. It tends to be gunky and sticks to glasses or gloops up the dishwasher filter. So the disposable bottle works great.
I reuse some of the bottles at the gym. Tend to forget partially empty ones in my gym bag - so when I rediscover them - off the little germ factory goes.
I wonder how many people follow the ‘wash and clean daily and then sanitize weekly’ guidelines. Frankly, how do you clean those straws or flip top lids?
’ According to a study from waterfilterguru.com, reusable water bottles contain an average of 20.8m colony-forming units (CFUs) of bacteria, which equates to 40,000 times more than the microbes on a toilet seat.’
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