New CamelBak
Disclaimer: The product I am about to rave and gush over was given to me with no expectation that I blog about it. But really, how could I not? It just isn’t who I am!
On Thursday, the mail man gave me a sweet present: a new CamelBak water bottle.
If you recall, I once decided to go BPA free with the plastics I use. This meant a really difficult decision to throw away my precious CamelBak water bottle. I linked to a website I really respect when it comes to information about companies who are BPA free. And if you check out the comments on my post, you will notice they left me a very nice comment:
Great blogging research! We gave you a hat tip for the planned Camelbak transition of their Bite Valve bottle, which we hadn’t noticed ourselves.
I thanked them for the “hat tip” (link back to my post) and had a warm and fuzzy feeling for the rest of the day.
Then a few days later, I received an email from Jeremiah stating CamelBak wanted to send them some of the new BPA free water bottles and send me one. I was no longer warm and fuzzy, I was over the moon!
Of course I sent them my mailing address and of course I haunted my mailbox looking for something from CamelBak. And then on Friday, there it was.
It came with the bite valve I really like and has been my constant companion. I am better hydrated since first filling it up, and I feel great knowing I am not ingesting a chemical that could potentially harm my reproductive hormones.
And it helps that it is a product I really, really like.
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May 5th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Thanks for the update, Alli! How do I know I am buying a BPA free product? Are they all BPA free now?
May 5th, 2008 at 11:27 am
@Laurie On my CamelBak bottle it is printed “BPA free” on the bottom edge. Also, look at the numbers on the bottom of your plastics. If it has a 7, it might have BPA in it.
I would also check out Z Recommends for information about BPA free companies. While Z Recommends focuses on children/ baby products, it does have great information that can translate for us grown-ups.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I’ve been meaning to get one of these for Brian, he really needs a new water bottle to take to work with him, his is very sad looking and beat up.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
You know I keep hearing that disposable water bottles are meant for one time use only. Thanks for sharing this with us. I’m off to check out the website you mentioned.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I plan on picking up one of these new BPA free bottles pretty soon. I absolutely love the hydration packs for outdoor sports… I haven’t been so hot on the water bottles except for lugging one around and refilling it instead of buying water off the shelf.