New water cans - Page 5

**BroncoHauler** · 02-11-2010, 07:15 PM

Thumbnails of new, black Scepter MWC.

Herb

Nomadcat · 02-13-2010, 09:37 AM

Does anybody know if these cans are BPH free? Just curious.

Paul

**BroncoHauler** · 02-13-2010, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Nomadcat

Does anybody know if these cans are BPH free? Just curious.

Paul

Paul, the bottom of the LCI cans show that they are HDPE (recyclable plastic type 2) if that helps you at all. The black Scepter can I have has no markings.

Herb

Nomadcat · 02-13-2010, 11:50 AM

I believe that's BPH-free. Thanks.

Of course, with the amount of crap I have breathed in/ingested/drunk or gotten through osmosis during 50 years of handling weird materials, BPH is probably the least of my worries...

**BroncoHauler** · 02-13-2010, 02:14 PM

No problem. I'm not convinced of the dangers of BPH leaching out of plastic, but who really knows? From what I've read (which admittedly isn't that much), a lot of it is voodoo-science at best.

If I'm storing water long-term (6-12 months), I might be concerned, but for a couple months, I'm not going to sweat it.

Herb

Nomadcat · 02-13-2010, 07:16 PM

The real shame is that I did not get into the stainless steel water bottle business before this BPH crap broke. Those people are making a killing.

Off to order some plastic!

TwoVans · 02-14-2010, 08:04 AM

No, no Herb. I'm sure the science is "settled" one this one too. I wouldn't be surprised if you died from washing your hands with water out of one of those... ;-)

jage · 02-14-2010, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by jessenej

No, no Herb. I'm sure the science is "settled" one this one too. I wouldn't be surprised if you died from washing your hands with water out of one of those... ;-)

Haven't you heard? Water itself is bad for you now. Seems somebody died because of too much water and all the buzz is "We thought water was healthy, but too much water can kill you, nobody should use water anymore."

Scalf77 · 02-14-2010, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Nomadcat

The real shame is that I did not get into the stainless steel water bottle business before this BPH crap broke. Those people are making a killing.

Off to order some plastic!

No the real shame is the people that purchased the stainless steel water bottles and found they were lined with BPH material.

Greggd · 02-14-2010, 08:49 AM

HDPE is not all the same and various additives that provide different properties do not always render this type of plastic safe for all types of human consumption . On all of the Sinks that we manufacture we are obligated to use FDA approved additives to insure that leeching of chemicals do not occur .With that said I can say that 90 per cent of the containers that our lab people have tested would be safe for short periods of storage of up to two months . Heat is one of the major culprits of leeching/contamination of water stored in HDPE . If you treat your water at time of storage you are able to arrest the biggest culprit of contamination and that is Algae growth .
Greggde