Tag: Bisphenol A - Page 6
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Hot Water + Polycarbonate Bottles = More Gender-Benders
We have been saying for a while that polycarbonates bottles can leach Bisphenol A, a gender bender chemical, and that it was time to ditch them; now a new University of Cincinnati study shows that the temperature of the liquid inside has the most
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The Perils of Being Thirsty While Being Green
-Refilling single use PET bottles: possible leaching of antimony, more likely bacteria because they are hard
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The Year Ahead With Alexandra Zissu
Who: Alexandra Zissu, journalist, co-author of The Complete Organic Pregnancy, Kids' Editor at New York magazine, and "Ask An Organic Mom"
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MEC Nixes Nalgenes
Mountain Equipment Coop, which dominates Canada's outdoor retailing scene and which helped make the Nalgene bottle a fashion statement, has given them the boot, because of growing concern about the gender bender chemical Bisphenol A in the
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Ontario May Ban Bisphenol A
We have gone on about gender benders and endocrine disruptors for a while at TreeHugger; Bisphenol A has been a particular bete noir, and we have suggested that it is time to pack in the polycarbonates. Now Dalton McGuinty, the Premier of Ontario, is
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Into the Mouths of Babes: Green to Grow Bottles
Lloyd posted the other day on Camelbak's intention to be the first company to offer consumers an bisphenol A free plastic alternative to durable polycarbonate bottles. And while their outdoor sports customers are looking forward to those rugged
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Camelbak Introduces Genderbender Free Bottles
We are big on carrying your own instead of buying bottled water, but what kind of bottle? We have suggested earlier that it was time to ditch the Nalgene polycarbonate bottles because of the possible leaching of Bisphenol A. This gender-bender mimics
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Ontario Election 2007: How Toxic are the Leaders?
I just can't wait to see all of the American presidential candidates pony up blood and urine samples to environmentalists to see how toxic they are, but that is what three of the leaders in the Ontario election did. They are so chock full of gender
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Chemical Found in Plastic Linked to Reproductive Disorders
Bisphenol A (BPA) — a chemical commonly found in hard plastics — has for the first time been linked to female reproductive disorders in a strongly-worded statement released by 38 scientists and published online in the journal Reproductive Toxicology.
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Time to Pack In the Polycarbonates
It's tough being a TreeHugger reader; one week we tell you to give up bottled water and carry your own bottle; now we suggest that you to ditch your polycarbonate Nalgene. Warren discussed the possibility of leaching of Bisphenol A (BPA) from
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Stefani Water Purifiers: an Alternative to Plastic
We have been nervous about our Loblaws knockoff Brita-style water filter, made of polycarbonate. There is concern about leaching of Bisphenol A from this plastic and we let the water sit in it all day. While the science on Bisphenol A is far from
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Gender Bender Chemicals Also Make You Fat
We used to think that exposure to bisphenol A was a guy thing- the estrogen-like gender-bender chemical that leaches from polycarbonates and the lining of tin cans may cause male breast enlargement and dropping sperm counts, but hey, that's only half the
