Stainless steel is generally considered non-toxic and resistant to bacterial growth, but many popular stainless steel ...

Plastic Is Recycled More Often. Reusable plastic water bottles are easier to make out of recycled materials. Let’s revisit the Nalgene Sustain bottle that I previously mentioned: it’s made with Tritan ...

Aquafina, a brand owned by PepsiCo, is another bottled water brand found to contain microplastic particles. The same 2018 Orb ...

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Bottles made from PET are labeled with an RIC of "1." PET is a strong, light plastic often used for water, food, and carbonated beverages, like soda.‌ Unlike ...

In a nutshell Recycled plastic pellets from India, Nigeria, and Taiwan leaked 84 different chemicals into water, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and plastic additives — with concentrations ...

More than 1 million bottles of water are sold every minute around the world and the sector shows no sign of slowing down — global sales of bottled water are expected to nearly double by 2030.

Single use plastic water bottles are a major component of overall plastic waste with 50 billion purchased each year in the US. A company called Cove has just launched the first biobased, ...

Newsom has called for a future free of plastic waste, yet a single-use plastic bottle is usually by his side during his ...

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study.

Two standard-sized water bottles had 240,000 plastic particles in them on average, the researchers found using "a powerful optical imaging technique for rapid analysis of nanoplastics." ...

The lid’s underside is made of metal. If you’d prefer that your water touches no plastic, this is the bottle to get. Michael Hession/NYT Wirecutter.

We tested options from Brita, CamelBak, and LifeStraw to find the best filtered water bottles for safe sipping while traveling. Our favorite options remove bacteria, chlorine, parasites, and even ...